[dns-operations] Windows 2003 DNS server's IPv6 support

Rose, Scott W. scott.rose at nist.gov
Mon May 24 11:12:05 UTC 2010


The beta versions of Win2008 R2 did this as well.  Don't know if it was changed in the final release.

Scott

On May 21, 2010, at 11:08 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:

>> From my initial testing it looks like Windows 2003's DNS server listens on
> an IPv6 address, but won't initiate requests to the root servers (iterative
> requests) via IPv6.  When I did a v6 dig from a *nix box while doing a
> packet capture on the Windows 2003 server, I saw the IPv6 UDP request for
> onlyv6.com, but the DNS server's queries to the root server for the NS
> records and all subsequent queries were on v4.  The result was "no servers
> could be reached".
> 
> Can anyone else confirm this behavior?  Is that resolved in Windows 2008?
> 
> Frank
> 
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