From: "Robert Comer" 

>  Does this also turn off IPV6 for the local loopback interface?  Does
> turning off IPV6 for the NIC disable IPV6 DNS queries?

Not the way I was thinking it wouldn't, but I would think it would stop the
latter, but I don't have any proof right at the moment.  It should stop
them though...

>   Geo's point was that if you never configure a physical interface with an
> IPV6 IP address, you wouldn't expect AAAA DNS record queries.   After all,
> what would it do with the IPV6 address if it couldn't connect to it?

The trick in Vista is that an IPV6 address is assigned, even if not defined
explicitly by the user or DHCP.

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Bob Comer


"Mike N."  wrote in message
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> On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:26:52 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
>>You can turn off IPV6 for your NIC...
>
>  Does this also turn off IPV6 for the local loopback interface?  Does
> turning off IPV6 for the NIC disable IPV6 DNS queries?
>
>   Geo's point was that if you never configure a physical interface with an
> IPV6 IP address, you wouldn't expect AAAA DNS record queries.   After all,
> what would it do with the IPV6 address if it couldn't connect to it?

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