Symantec Endpoint Protection for Windows disables ipv6

Daniel Roesen dr at cluenet.de
Tue Aug 23 00:25:57 CEST 2011


Hi,

F-Secure too. :-( Trying to fix that currently.

Best regards,
Daniel

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:21:33PM -0700, Jeff Francis? wrote:
> FWIW, Check Point's endpoint software does the same thing.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:19, Matthew Huff <mhuff at ox.com> wrote:
> 
> > Symantec?s new Endpoint Protection client for enterprises includes a new
> > rule based ?network threat protection?. One of the default rules blocks all
> > ipv6. One of our admins ran an upgrade this weekend on our AD servers and
> > since they were still advertising AAAA records for themselves, but dropping
> > ipv6 packets, it caused a few problems this morning.****

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