ipv6 Follies

Recently, I came across a situation that I believe may occur to others
in this audience.

I travel quite a bit and I always stay at hotels where either wired or
wireless Internet access is freely available. My notebook came with
Windows XP SP2 installed. It also has both wired and wireless
ethernet connectivity. This notebook is about 15 months old and has
logged many flights and hotels stays both in Europe and North
America. It has seen several dozen networks and has always connected
flawlessly and enabled me to surf the web, get my mail, talk on Skype
and access the machines back at the office or at home.

Before this notebook, I had another one that started life as a Windows
98 machine but was upgraded immediately to Windows 2000 and later
Windows XP, then SP1 and finally SP2. Over the years, that notebook
saw hundreds of networks, and never had a problem.

With this preamble out of the way, last week when I checked in at the
hotel at my travel destination, I started getting some weird
problems. The biggest manifestion of the problem was my inability to
contact about 90% of the sites that I visit, including the email
servers to which I belong. The error was displayed as an HTTP PROXY
error, Unable to access address 0.0.0.1.

After a while, I contacted the hotel's technical support and the tech
said they were seeing a lot of those errors and had me do the
following command in Windows:

ipv6 uninstall

Then Windows enjoined me to reboot.

When the system came back up, all Internet problems were gone; the
requested pages were served up at very high speed.

I have discussed this with other groups and I still don't completely
buy the resolution but since it works, I am satisfied. My only
question is "why here and nowhere else?"

At any rate, I know some of the readers here travel with their
notebooks and I thought I would share this.

Denys.

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