Re: INET6 in world

From: Daniel C. Sobral <dcs_at_tcoip.com.br>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 11:04:42 -0300
Bruce Cran wrote:
> 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.

I wonder about their definition of "support". There *were* queries being 
made, but only AAAA. It never asked for A, even when IPv6 was disabled 
in (but added to) the interface.

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