Plans for IPv6 support on windows?

Eion Robb eion at robbmob.com
Wed Jan 18 21:11:52 EST 2012


On 19 January 2012 13:37, John Bailey <rekkanoryo at rekkanoryo.org> wrote:

> On 01/18/2012 02:39 PM, Eion Robb wrote:
> > Didn't we drop support for 95/98 a while ago?
> >
> http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Installing%20Pidgin#CanIrunPidginonWindows98ME
>
> Yes, but we *do* still support Windows 2000, which has no IPv6 support at
> all.
>

According to MSDN:
The IPv6 protocol is supported on Windows 2000 when the IPv6 Technology
Preview for Windows 2000 is installed. Otherwise getaddrinfo support on
versions of Windows earlier than Windows XP is limited to handling IPv4
name resolution.
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