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Peter Zhu
Peter Zhu

Reputation: 1194

How to access a ipv6 address using windows command?

I know how to access a ipv4 address using windows command.

Open command line and type

explorer.exe http://173.194.72.103

Here is the question, how to access a ipv6 address?

I tried to do this like ipv4

ping -6 www.google.com

result:Ping www.google.com [2607:f8b0:4006:808::1012]

explorer.exe http://2607:f8b0:4006:808::1012

or

explorer.exe https://2607:f8b0:4006:808::1012

Neither ok, they open "My Computer" panel.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1897

Answers (1)

John Zwinck
John Zwinck

Reputation: 249133

If I put http://2607:f8b0:4006:808::1012 into the address bar of Google Chrome on Windows 7, it doesn't work (it searches for the "phrase" on Google). Likewise for IE. So I got to thinking, maybe your syntax is wrong, and it's not Explorer's fault. And I found this:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/n3jUQROi1cA

Which says you must use brackets. And behold, this works:

explorer.exe http://[2607:f8b0:4006:808::1012]

The grammar is described in painstaking detail here: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#section-3.2.2

The key parts are:

host       = IP-literal / IPv4address / reg-name

IP-literal = "[" ( IPv6address / IPvFuture  ) "]"

Upvotes: 3

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