SK0-004 · Question #350
An administrator is using IPv4 on all servers. If a new technician installs only IPv6 on a workstation, which of the following servers will the workstation be able to access?
The correct answer is C. No servers. IPv4 and IPv6 are not natively interoperable, so an IPv6-only workstation cannot communicate with any server that runs only IPv4.
Question
An administrator is using IPv4 on all servers. If a new technician installs only IPv6 on a workstation, which of the following servers will the workstation be able to access?
Options
- ADHCP server
- BDomain controller
- CNo servers
- DDNS server
How the community answered
(42 responses)- A7% (3)
- B2% (1)
- C79% (33)
- D12% (5)
Why each option
IPv4 and IPv6 are not natively interoperable, so an IPv6-only workstation cannot communicate with any server that runs only IPv4.
The DHCP server is IPv4-only; the IPv6-only workstation would need DHCPv6 or SLAAC for address assignment and cannot communicate with a legacy IPv4 DHCP server.
The domain controller is running IPv4 services; an IPv6-only host cannot establish a connection to it without dual-stack or translation support.
IPv4 and IPv6 use entirely different addressing schemes and packet formats with no built-in backward compatibility. Because all servers in the environment are configured with IPv4 only, and the workstation has only IPv6, there is no common protocol layer for communication. Without a translation mechanism such as NAT64/DNS64 or dual-stack configuration, the workstation cannot reach any of the IPv4-only servers.
The DNS server is IPv4-only; even though DNS is a higher-layer protocol, the underlying transport must match and an IPv6-only client cannot reach an IPv4-only DNS server.
Concept tested: IPv4 and IPv6 protocol incompatibility
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/technologies/ipv6/ipv6-basics
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