Vista Tutorial - Vista can't access sites with broken IPv6 like www.facebook.com?

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-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-- 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?

I have an HP Pavilion laptop running Vista Home Premium with IPv6 configured
and have no problem getting a hold of the sites you mention. I do notice
that my IPv4 connection lists INTERNET and IPv6 lists LIMITED for the
connection type which leads me to believe that IPv6 isn't being used over
the internet and maybe that's why I'm not having problems but everything is
configured to enable it.

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Mark R. Cusumano
Skype Name: mark.cusumano
Web: http://The-Padded-Cell.spaces.live.com



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