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Why would my computer (Vista Business) begin to start pinging using IPv6? I have not to my knowledge made any change to enable this.
When I ping a local computer with it's hostname, ping has started to display the IP6 address it resolves to and not the IPv4 address.
Any ideas?
john
Posted 2011-01-17T08:04:01.427
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It's probably because when ping looks up the hostname your DNS returns an ip6 address. Check with whomever is in charge of your DNS server.
Nifle
Posted 2011-01-17T08:04:01.427
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Just go to network card properties, uncheck the IPV6 address option and restart the machine. default ping to hostname will resolve to ipv4 address.
Dr.Pfeiffer
Posted 2011-01-17T08:04:01.427
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2Not an answer to the question which is just "why". Also you will want IPv6 support when possible. – MarioDS – 2014-07-31T21:19:58.983
you can force IPv4 by using
ping -4 hostname– ndreisg – 2020-02-20T08:53:43.750Because computer can understand only numbers and not name like ( 0 and 1).And also when you work on domain there is a Reverse Look-up zone which has done this function. – None – 2011-08-16T09:31:50.623