Yesterday's Windows update causes IPv4 to be default

[Dick Visser]

On 16 November 2012 17:47, Dan Wing <dwing at cisco.com> wrote:

> > My intern is looking into IPv6-only-izing VMware, but ran into issues
> > with software updating, because 'hostupdate.vmware.com' sits in Akamai
> > and has only IPv4.  Somehow I think I found the reason why :)
>
> Seems a perfect reason to drop in a NAT64 so the IPv6-only host can
> visit hostupdate.vmware.com.

That's what we have now (in the form of a Tayga VM), and while it
works just fine, native IPv6 connectivity would be best.
The less dependence on NAT64/DNS64 "hackery", the better.
You'd think that a large corporation like VMware has this stuff all sorted out.

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Dick Visser
System & Networking Engineer
TERENA Secretariat
Singel 468 D, 1017 AW Amsterdam
The Netherlands