Joe's Tech Blog » Vista http://www.joestechblog.com IT Support Notes, Tech Culture, Anything Geeky Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:18:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to select which IP version to ping http://www.joestechblog.com/2009/11/28/how-to-select-which-ip-version-to-ping/ http://www.joestechblog.com/2009/11/28/how-to-select-which-ip-version-to-ping/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:28:25 +0000 Aaron http://www.joestechblog.com/?p=41 If you’re trying to ping something by hostname but only want to ping the IPv4 IP address, you’ll sometimes need to specify this when executing the PING command. Example on Win2008 & Vista (pinging the IP server.domain.com)

To ping and IPv4 IP:

 ping server.domain.com -4

To ping an IPv6 IP:

 ping server.domain.com -6
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