Re: INET6 in world

From: Bruce Cran <bruce_at_cran.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:36:20 +0100
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
Received on Fri Aug 08 2003 - 04:36:29 UTC

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