Re: WIndows Updates Fail Via IPv6

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

> On Nov 11, 2018, at 8:45 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:
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> On 11/Nov/18 14:02, Chris Knipe wrote:
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> > Also no problems here with IPv6 and Windows Updates... 
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> The issue is affecting (and has affected) quite a few folk:
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> https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/a9b1b537-ad27-4718-821b-57ef33174974/windows-update-fails-if-ipv6-is-enabled?forum=w8itpronetworking
> https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/16e7aa06-9b90-48f8-8370-76c2329b93a8/windows-update-ipv6?forum=ws2016
> https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-8-pro-windows-update-fails-if-ipv6-is/7ebdac22-6675-402b-ad43-e3fa8450659d
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> It occurs to me that this, could, perhaps be CDN specific. 
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> I'm currently not in Johannesburg, but last time I checked, the majority of Windows updates were being handled by 
> Akamai. Perhaps this is where the issue could be, although we have got local IPv6 peering with Akamai and don't 
> generally have issues with it.
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> I'll dig deeper into how Akamai may be involved when I get back home.

Let me know if you see anything related to Akamai.  Looking at these threads I don’t see anything really obvious and 
some are much older posts.

- Jared