Unless a machine tries to perform a DNS lookup on a domain or website and an IPv6 address is returned as the result (does this happen now?).Īre there any DNS queries right now that will return an IPv6 result? So any equipment on the LAN side theoretically wouldn't need to know anything about IPv6 - unless. I would think that the vast majority of people that are home or SOHO internet users will have (or be given) new DSL or cable modems by their ISP's that are IPv6 aware (on the WAN side) and perform NAT translation to IPv4 IP address's on their LAN side.

Finally, what might this mean for home networks - will Win98 boxes networked behind a router still be able to talk to each other within the network, even if they can no longer access the Internet? (I think so, but am asking to make sure.).

What (if anything) can we do to our machines to make them ready for IPv6?.

Will the browsers on our Win98 boxes one day give us a 'the page cannot be displayed' error that cannot be fixed?.'If you keep a piece of IPv4-only equipment, someday it won't be able to talk to the rest of the network because two different addressing schemes are at play-kind of like trying to use a telephone number to send a piece of paper mail.'

What implications (if any) does the impending move to IPv6 have for those of us who are using Windows 98 and hardware from that era? The following paragraph from this article sounds especially ominous:

Quez stresser ipv6 error