After getting a new PC with Vista Home Premium on it, I discovered
that I could access most Web sites but some hostnames wouldn't
resolve, like
www.pagliacci.com and
www.facebook.com. I recalled once
running into a problem on Linux with
www.facebook.com and a friend who
explained to me that it had something to do with
www.facebook.com
having a broken IPv6 record, so I went into Control Panel->Network and
Sharing Center->Manage network connections->Local Area Connection-
Quote:
>Properties and disabled IPv6, and rebooted the machine, and after
that,
www.pagliacci.com and
www.facebook.com worked.
So I did fix the problem, but it seems hard to believe that on
millions of PCs running Windows Vista under the default settings,
www.facebook.com would not work. If you're running Vista:
- are you able to access
www.facebook.com? (Note that if your
Internet connection goes through a proxy server,
www.facebook.com may
still resolve even if Vista IPv6 is enabled, because if you go through
a proxy then hostname resolution is done on the proxy and not on your
PC.)
- if you ARE able to access
www.facebook.com, then if you go to
Control Panel->Network and Sharing Center->Manage network connections-
Quote:
>Local Area Connection->Properties, is IPv6 enabled?
- if the answer to BOTH questions above is yes, then, any networking
gurus on the list have any idea how
www.facebook.com could be
resolving on a Vista machine that has IPv6 enabled, if Facebook's IPv6
record is broken?
- if I'm giving up some important functionality by disabling IPv6, is
there any way I could keep it enabled and still be able to access
sites like
www.facebook.com whose IPv6 records are broken?