INET6 in world
Bruce Cran
bruce at cran.org.uk
Fri Aug 8 06:36:29 PDT 2003
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:01:30AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> Terry Lambert wrote:
> >
> >
> >1) Machines do not ship with it enabled by default; a
> > Windows user has about as much probability of doing
> > the necessary work to enable it as they do of making
> > something other than Internet Explorer their default
> > browser.
> >
> >2) You have to go to a command line prompt and issue a
> > cryptic command to enable it at all.
>
> Err, not at all. You go to install/remove additional windows components
> (I do not recall the exact phrasing) and select IPv6.
>
> >3) When you enable it, you get a huge scare warning about
> > it being experimental.
>
> I didn't. :-) And the bastard stopped doing A queries. :-)
That'll be because, according to
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/administration/ipv6/default.asp
there's no support in Windows XP's IPv6 stack for DNS.
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Bruce Cran
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