Ping returns “Reply from ::1: time

Active Directory, DNS, Windows Networking, Windows Server 2008 R2, ,

Ping returns the following

 Pinging DC1.domain.com [::1] from ::1 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from ::1: time=1ms

Reply from ::1: time=2ms

Reply from ::1: time=1ms

Reply from ::1: time=3ms

Disable IPv6 and your problems go away. It’s usually not enough to uncheck it in the NIC properties. For best results use the registry to disable it.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip6\Parameters] “DisabledComponents”=dword:000000ff