Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 11:04:42 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: INET6 in world Message-ID: <3F33ADFA.1030402@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20030808133620.GA30840@buffy.brucec.backnet> References: <3F2D1713.9060806@liwing.de> <20030803181735.GC6331@cicely12.cicely.de> <3F2EA5AD.E4C73C6@mindspring.com> <20030804184248.GA41334@crodrigues.org> <3F2F8A5F.A17CABCA@mindspring.com> <3F324AFF.1070104@tcoip.com.br> <3F3353D6.183AE6C8@mindspring.com> <3F33830A.2080608@tcoip.com.br> <20030808133620.GA30840@buffy.brucec.backnet>
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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. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.
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