I am about to demote another Win2008 R2 DC, so I ran "dfsdiag /testdcs"
first. And on this server, it starts to validate the site associations of
this server. And it says:

The server has IP address with conflicting site associations.

Host IP address                         Subnet-SiteMapping in AD
::1                                                No mapping exists


Now, isn't ::1 the IPv6 equivalent of 127.0.0.1? I'm not using IPv6, and in
fact it is unchecked in the network connection properties. And I don't see
this error when I do that command on the 2 other servers (which also don't
have IPv6).

I'm guessing that it thinks I need a subnet in Sites and Services, but I
don't know why (or where) it's finding that ::1 at all ... Nor why the 2
other servers in this same site are *not* showing this error, even when
querying the problematical server. There's just the 1 NIC, and I am not
using a VPN (which might be assigning an IP).

Web searches have been less than fruitful ... Event log of this server
shows nothing about DFS warnings or errors.

I don't want to create an IPv6 subnet, as I don't plan on using IPv6. Is it
safe to just ignore this? (most especially since I am about to demote it,
and since there are no other DFS namespaces besides Domain System Volume,
and the 2 other servers don't show the error)

ADDENDUM: now DFSDIAG /testreferral is telling me there are stale entries
and to restart the service on all DCs. Yet that same command does *not*
show stale entries on the other DCs in the domain ...

<SIGH>

Oh, well. It's still just the test domain, I will restart all 3 DCs, and do
something else for a few minutes while they come back up and hopefully sync
...

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