How to surf from Windows 7?

[ratcheer]

My Ubuntu client host is working very well. My tunnel endpoint is my Netgear router and radvd is running on the router. Ubuntu picked up on everything, automagically.

However, my Win 7 host cannot establish DNS to IPv6. It has acquired a valid IPv6 address via radvd and it can successfully "ping -6" to IPv6 web site names. But, using either MSIE or Chrome web browsers, it cannot surf to those sites.

I found using netsh commands that it had no DNS assigned for IPv6. I tried and tried to get it to pick up the one from my router, as Linux is apparently doing. But nothing would work.

So, I finally assigned a static dns of 2001:470:20::2, as given on my Tunnel Details page. It took that, but I still cannot surf.

What else do I need to try?

Thanks,
Tim

[ratcheer]

Never mind. Stupid Windows. Even though it was picking up and showing the changes to the network, I still had to reboot for them to become effective.  ::)

Tim

[cholzhauer]

interesting.  i was under the impression that windows couldnt get dns info from radvd

[ratcheer]

interesting.  i was under the impression that windows couldnt get dns info from radvd

Well, actually my last reply pertained to where I had statically set it to 2001:470:20::2, but out of curiosity I set it back to Automatic, rebooted again, and it still works. So, it is either getting it from radvd or some other way through the router.

Tim

[cholzhauer]

try removing it via the command line, rebooting, and then see what happens.

[Mierdin]

radvd is able to distribute a recursive DNS list specified in RFC6106 - I was surprised as well when I learned it since everyone seemed to say you had to use the O flag in RA's to point to a DHCPv6 server which I don't have. (yet)

Here's an example:
http://www.jukie.net/bart/blog/20100915175649

[cholzhauer]

Yeah, I know RADVD can transmit, but as I say, I was under the impression that Windows did not accept the DNS information.