Windows 10: NAS users and home LANS IPV6 now working properly

Hi folks
after latest update on Current Windows release (not insider builds) LAN and SAMBA connectivity is working fine now with IPV6. Amazon firebox (latest models) handles IPV6 as well if you use those as a set top box to a remote / smart TV.
Phones also shouldn't have any significant problem -- older smart TV's though might still require IPV4 home lan addresses.





Using IPV6 DNS servers also seems to make Internet response time better --of course that's difficult to quantify since a lot can depend on traffic to and from target web site, efficiency of code on the target website and network contention via ISP .

Cheers
jimbo

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How to find IPv6 addresses of devices on the LAN?

When I ping another Windows device on my LAN my local Windows uses an IPv6 address. (I think I have IPv4 pings blocked by my firewalls.) A packet trace shows Windows issuing NBNS, MDNS, and LLMNR packets which seem to be from 3 different network discovery procedures. The MDNS and LLMNR responses both return IPv6 addresses.

Is there any command, either from Microsoft or 3rd party, that returns IPv6 addresses gathered by these (or other) commands.

"NSLOOKUP -query=AAAA ...." would work if the addresses were registered on my router's name server, but they are not. (My router's DNS does not return IPv6 addresses that it knows about, and the ping used link-local addresses that are not provided to DNS servers anyway.)

Some network scanning tools - SoftPerfect's Network Scanner, for instance - find some of the IPv6 addresses on my LAN, but I want to be able to query the addresses for a specify device name, not scan the whole address. (And even the SoftPerfect tool does not find the IPv6 addresses for my Synaology NAS. And a "ping -6 ..." by name for the Synaology NAS fails but a "ping -6 ..." by address succeeds. The Synology NAS must work at hiding its IPv6 address.)

 

Converting to IPV6 - how do I set up Local LAN addresses

Hi there

ISP is migrating to IPV6 shortly. I'm going to bite the bullet and try to convert LAN adresses to IPV6 -- not sure how to do this Google isn't totally helpful on this either.

I believe for the switch over period one can use something like a NAT64 gateway for access to both IPV4 and IPV6 systems.

I've set the DNS's in the router to use Google;s public DNS64 which are :

2001:4860:4860::6464
2001:4860:4860::64

My Routers IPV6 menu suggests I use default link as gateway

2001:0db8:0:f101::1

This works so far on Internet

Google's public DNS64 returns IPV4 addresses as "pseudo" ipv6 ones which

I've set the router to IPV4/IPV6 dual stack.

I'm stuck on what I should use on the local LAN though. I've only got 1 Linux computer now with Internet access -should be up to 4 - 6 windows machines, plus 3 android phones plus an amazon fire TV box, 2X Linux NAS servers and a smart TV.

The amazon TV works as does the smart TV but I haven't a clue about the local computers.

I can only access the NAS box now from another Linux VM an -- Windows machines just don't get a look in.

This is only a test --I can revert back but eventually this will have to work and I've a bit of free time today to play with this.

BTW take a note of ALL settings before playing with any of this type of stuff as it will an impossible job to get it all back again if it doesn't work.

Would appreciate help from Gurus.

Router is IPV6 capable - no probs there.





Cheers
jimbo

 

IPv6 not working on laptop, works on other computers on LAN


My router is supplying IPv6 to all the LAN clients in my house. In particular, IPv6 is working on my Windows 10 desktop computer, but not this laptop. This laptop is a Windows 10 Pro OS, and I don't see IPv6 connectivity when I look at the connection in the Network and Sharing Center. When I look at the network adapter (wired) properties, it shows that IPv6 is enabled in the networking software.

The laptop used to have IPv6 connectivity with Windows 10 before I installed the giant threshold 2 update last night, now IPv6 not working on the laptop.

Any ideas of what I can do to diagnose the problem with the laptop? I've run the Windows troubleshooters, and they don't find any problems (of course). Even my Apple and Android mobile clients have IPv6 connectivity.

Thanks!