Vista + ipv6 = broken?

growse · 17 Jan 2008 at 23:49

Just installed vista, and now for some reason I can't get apps to see my ipv6 network. I can sit here and ping ipv6 targets, but things like firefox, thunderbird etc all refuse to connect to ipv6 endpoints, whereas they had no problem in winxp.

Any ideas what the issues could be?

radderfire · 17 Jan 2008 at 23:55

I feel your pain. I have a Thomson Speedtouch 585 router and my Vista notebook can't file share with my Win XP network.

I'm not sure what could be causing your issue but I'll be interested to hear what people have to say.

Rgds

Radderfire

growse · 18 Jan 2008 at 08:51

Mysteriously, it seems to have fixed itself.

randal · 18 Jan 2008 at 09:02

You run ipv6 at home? Any advantages, besides 2 octets more and being able to IP address every molecule in your house?

afraser2k · 18 Jan 2008 at 09:41

Isn't IPv6 enabled as default on Vista? I guess they're just trying to prepare the world for the eventual move from IPv4.

growse · 18 Jan 2008 at 10:32

randal24 said:
You run ipv6 at home? Any advantages, besides 2 octets more and being able to IP address every molecule in your house?

Not really. I do it for the same reason I have silly hardware and unnecessarily complicated network layouts - to learn about such things

growse · 19 Jan 2008 at 20:00

Scrub that, it's broken again. Seriously, wtf?

*edit* seems like it's a dns issue. Vista just isn't requesting AAAA records from the dns server - it works if I access http://[2001:200:0:8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085]/ but not http://www.kame.net. Has this always been broken?