can anyone shed light as to why Microsoft would be using fec0:0:0:ffff::1, fec0:0:0:ffff::2 and fec0:0:0:ffff::3 as some sort of default config? I am trying to read up about the purpose of this, and am only finding 11 year old RFCs. And as far as I know, fec0 prefix use is deprecated?
Enlighten me? ???
Expecting Micro$oft to follow the Internet's published standards is akin to herding cats.
The best part is that Windows defaults to those addresses, but -- unless you're running single-stack IPv6 -- never %@$#ing uses them (http://www.tunnelbroker.net/forums/index.php?topic=2310.0), as I wrote about a couple weeks back.
I, too, am curious to know the answer to this. I've searched around but haven't found anyone who can explain it. It seems like a hold-over from WinXP's v6 stack which also listed those addresses by default even though XP couldn't send DNS queries via IPv6 anyway. So you were forced to use dual-stack on XP and send AAAA queries to a resolver reachable via v4.
For anybody who's taken the time to play with it, do these addresses still show up in the latest Windows 8 beta/consumer preview?
-- Nathan
Quote from: nathana on March 21, 2012, 06:11:51 AM
The best part is that Windows defaults to those addresses, but -- unless you're running single-stack IPv6 -- never %@$#ing uses them (http://www.tunnelbroker.net/forums/index.php?topic=2310.0), as I wrote about a couple weeks back.
I, too, am curious to know the answer to this. I've searched around but haven't found anyone who can explain it. It seems like a hold-over from WinXP's v6 stack which also listed those addresses by default even though XP couldn't send DNS queries via IPv6 anyway. So you were forced to use dual-stack on XP and send AAAA queries to a resolver reachable via v4.
For anybody who's taken the time to play with it, do these addresses still show up in the latest Windows 8 beta/consumer preview?
-- Nathan
crap I missed that in my search here. woops :)
this thread should die. I will ask a friend that has Win8 installed and post in your other thread
Yes, Win8_CP still has these fec0:0:0:ffff::1, fec0:0:0:ffff::2 and fec0:0:0:ffff::3 as default DNS addresses.
Oh well.......
--Jeff