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ratcheer
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« on: March 01, 2011, 02:41:17 pm »
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
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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2011, 03:30:53 pm »
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.  Roll Eyes

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« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2011, 03:46:40 pm »
interesting.  i was under the impression that windows couldnt get dns info from radvd
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« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2011, 03:58:07 pm »
Quote from: cholzhauer on March 01, 2011, 03:46:40 pm
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.

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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2011, 04:40:45 pm »
try removing it via the command line, rebooting, and then see what happens.
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« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2011, 01:18:13 pm »
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
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« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2011, 01:21:55 pm »
Yeah, I know RADVD can transmit, but as I say, I was under the impression that Windows did not accept the DNS information.
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