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Date:      Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:36:20 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: INET6 in world
Message-ID:  <20030808133620.GA30840@buffy.brucec.backnet>
In-Reply-To: <3F33830A.2080608@tcoip.com.br>
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>

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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.

--
Bruce Cran



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