From: "Robert Comer" 

You can turn off IPV6 for your NIC...

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Bob Comer


"Mike N."  wrote in message
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> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 21:59:34 -0400, "Geo"
 wrote:
>
>>Oh, did anyone catch the recent blurbs about how vista is going to double
>>the dns requirements of every computer?
>>http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6112338.html?tag=nl.e550
>
>   This is just alarmist crap.   A discard or reject on the DNS server
> takes much less CPU than a full resolve.   DNS requests themselves are a
> tiny fraction of the overall net traffic and doubling it would not be
> noticible.
>
>   One extra lookup per new-web page is nothing compared to the old W2K+
> one-update-per-minute trying to update the reverse DNS for the zone based
> on the assigned DHCP address.
>
>>I really fail to see why MS didn't fix this, I mean how hard is it to look
>>at the machine configuration and decide if you are using IPv4 or IPv6?
>
>  I haven't looked at the Vista IP configuration, but if it's like Linux
> the answer is subtle.   They probably make an IPV6 config decision based
> on
> the presence of a configured IPV6 address.   The local loopback is likely
> configured as IPV6.   They would have to revise this to mean IPV6/On not-
> Loopback interface.   It still seems as if it would be useful to have a
> confguration flag to turn this off.

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