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Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6

Posted by kdawson on from the pioneers-with-arrows dept.

netbuzz writes in to note that some early adopters of Microsoft Vista are reporting problems with Vista's implementation of IPv6. An example:"'We are seeing a number of applications that are IP-based that do not like the addressing scheme of IPv6,' says one user. 'We will send a print job to an IP-based printer, and the print job becomes corrupted. We're seeing this with Window's Vista machines. When IPv6 is installed, this happens without fail. As soon as we remove IPv6, all of our printer functions return to normal.'"

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  1. While You're In There by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 4, Funny

    Disable this whole "internet" thing altogether. It's been full of security problems for Windows ever since someone dreamed it up.

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    1. Re:While You're In There by Haydre · · Score: 3, Funny

      Thanks a lot, Al Gore.

    2. Re:While You're In There by bigdavesmith · · Score: 2, Funny

      Luxury.

      Back in my day, we had to carry reels of tape through a lake, uphill both ways, and when we finally got home with the tape, our dad would beat us to death with a punch card.

      Now you try telling that to the kids today, and they won't believe you.

  2. Obligatory by D-Cypell · · Score: 5, Funny

    "2^32 unique addresses ought to be enough for anybody."

  3. Also IPv4 by VincenzoRomano · · Score: 3, Funny

    I suspect that also IPv4 is having problems.

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  4. dot.Excuses .. by rs232 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "We recognize that not all applications and drivers were up to date by launch and that there have been some compatibility issues as a result,"

    "But we also know that Windows Vista is the highest-quality, most secure and most broadly supported operating system we've ever released."

    Hameroff adds that Microsoft is running an IPv6 network and "to my knowledge has not experienced these types of issues"

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    1. Re:dot.Excuses .. by QuietLagoon · · Score: 3, Funny
      "But we also know that Windows Vista is the highest-quality, most secure and most broadly supported operating system we've ever released."

      But mediocre is just not good enough anymore.

  5. Re:Oh My God by RandoX · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you responded to the wrong story, but you're amazingly on topic anyway.

  6. So... by Lisandro · · Score: 3, Funny

    When IPv6 is installed, this happens without fail. As soon as we remove IPv6, all of our printer functions return to normal.

    It fails without fail? ;)

  7. It's a feature! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 2, Funny

    'We will send a print job to an IP-based printer, and the print job becomes corrupted.
    Ah-ha! You've discovered the undocumented, but terribly useful, user-papercut-protection device!
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  8. Microsoft's new motto: by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 2, Funny

    Embrace, Extend, and Explode! :D

  9. Re:Microsoft's IPv6 stack by jacksonj04 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft's IPv6 stack is extremely secure, more so than the Linux one. It achieves this by simply not talking to anything.

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  10. Micro$oft SOP Extract... by alien-alien · · Score: 2, Funny

    Standard Operating Procedure: To usurp a world standard and boost Microsoft sales:

    (1) Deliver a "world standard" implementation
    (2) ???
    (3) Offer Microsoft-only extensions with subsequent "patch" (for efficiency of course)
    (4) Developers use the extensions
    (5) Standard subverted!!
    (6) Profit

    Implementation Notes:
    step (2) may be completely omitted for already well established and widely adopted standards (e.g. C, C++)
    step (2) has recently been proposed as "Break something important"