Re: [71attendees] IPv6 on a Windows XP?

The otherwise useful instructions on the wiki for installing bind as a workaround to reduce XP's currently end in "Result is a crash!  Bug reported... watch this space."
Given that plenary (and therefore outage) is tonight and there's no fix as of yet for BIND workaround, how about enabling JUST DNS in IPv4 like was done at NANOG IPv4 outage, perhaps just on the local DNS servers being reported on DHCP?

Or failing that, perhaps someone with a box running some superior version of software that understands that DNS is sorta critical to proper IPv6 function [*nix, Leopard, *cough* mumble..vista] could put a static 1918 address on their box to make their box available on the network for us unfortunate souls to use for DNS without actually needing IPv4 enabled on the wireless network itself?

It should be possible to configure DNS to listen/respond on IPv4 and but respond with IPv6 addresses (AAAA), right?

Even if BIND is fixed, we're not covering any new ground by proving that XP doesn't do IPv6 well, and those of us stuck with an XP box would still like to participate in the trial.

Thanks,
Wes

-----Original Message-----
From: 71attendees-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:71attendees-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Elwyn Davies
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 7:17 PM
To: Elwyn Davies
Cc: 71attendees@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [71attendees] IPv6 on a Windows XP?

Also there is a readme.1st file in the distribution with more info.

/e

Elwyn Davies wrote:
> File locations are apparently in C:\windows\system32\dns\etc\
>
> I found some info at
> http://www.linode.com/forums/archive/o_t/t_1676/bind_9_on_windows_xp_u
> sing_apache_server.html
>
>
> We need a BIND expert for contents of files!
>
> /Elwyn
>
> Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>> On 10 mrt 2008, at 16:43, Arifumi Matsumoto wrote:
>>
>>
>>> why not install bind on Windows XP ? :)
>>> http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/view/?release=9.3.2-P2
>>>
>>
>> Can someone write up an explanation of how to do that?
>>
>> I installed BIND and set up the interface with DNS address 127.0.0.1
>> but I'm at a loss about how to control BIND under XP... I can't find
>> any information about where the named.conf goes and how to tell the
>> server to reload it.
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