On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Brian E Carpenter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com" target="_blank">brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div>
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Alternatively, find the IPv4 address of <a href="http://www.msftnsci.com" target="_blank">www.msftnsci.com</a>,<br>
in my case 23.62.53.58,<br>
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and then add an entry to your hosts file like this:<br>
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#confuse the Windows v6 connectivity test by pointing it to IPv4<br>
23.62.53.58 <a href="http://ipv6.msftncsi.com" target="_blank">ipv6.msftncsi.com</a><br>
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It works beautifully.<br></blockquote><div><br>For those of you following along at home, note that several letters in '<a href="http://www.msftnsci.com">www.msftnsci.com</a>' are transposed (should be ' <a href="http://www.msftncsi.com">www.msftncsi.com</a> ') -- lest you go down the rabbit hole of trying to figure out if you're using a malicious resolver, or wondering what country 'VG' is.<br>
<br>This hack might not be too stable: note that <a href="http://www.msftncsi.com">www.msftncsi.com</a> is a CNAME to an Akamai CDN host. In my experience, Akamai addressing is quite dynamic, and pinning to an IP literal will probably break sometime in the near future.<br>
<br>-n<br></div></div>