at 4:29 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> Anyone ever figured out why Windows updates fail when the computer has an 
> IPv6 connection?
>
> Google has tickets and tickets of this to and outside of Microsoft since 
> 2013, with no real solution or answer as to what the problem actually is. 
> In essence, many of the solutions out there point toward making sure the 
> updates do not occur over IPv6, which, in effect, is the same as 
> disabling it.
>
> I have a family PC at home running Windows 10 Pro, and noticed updates 
> would fail in recent months. It took me a moment to realize that this 
> started happening only after I enabled IPv6 in the TCP/IP stack. 
> Disabling it immediately solves the issue.
>
> Quite odd that this is happening in 2018...
>
> Mark.

I’ve had IPv6 enabled for a while and I don’t have the same issue.  We also 
peer directly with Microsoft.   Are you sure it’s an IPv6 issue and not a 
general reachability issue?

-Daniel