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Not a single guess? \u00a0Ah, well.<\/p>\n

Turns out the culprit in this case was a client-based firewall, the Network Threat Protection module of Symantec’s Endpoint Protection software. \u00a0Apparently it protects clients too well over IPv6, but cutting them off entirely. \u00a0Once it was disabled, DHCPv6 and IPv6-based name resolution began working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not a single guess? \u00a0Ah, well. Turns out the culprit in this case was a client-based firewall, the Network Threat Protection module of Symantec’s Endpoint Protection software. \u00a0Apparently it protects clients too well over IPv6, but cutting them off entirely. \u00a0Once it was disabled, DHCPv6 and IPv6-based name resolution began working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":3187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[201,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-4528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ipv6-coe","8":"tag-firewall","9":"tag-infoblox","10":"tag-security","11":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDispatches from the Front: The Answer to Our Question<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Not a single guess? 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