Policy

Turn off default IPv6 DNS Servers

Microsoft Windows

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Turn off default IPv6 DNS Servers
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Network > DNS Client
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 or Windows RT

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016

If you enable this policy, the DNS client will not use the default IPv6 DNS server addresses provided by Windows.

Internal name
DNS_TurnOffIPv6DefaultDnsServers
Policy ID
875d4c9c151b
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\DNSClient
Value name
DisableIPv6DefaultDnsServers
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\DNSClient
Value name
DisableIPv6DefaultDnsServers
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.