{"id":3047,"date":"2015-10-09T10:16:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2021-02-08T06:03:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T06:03:24","slug":"ping-ipv6-address-with-ping6-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/ping-ipv6-address-with-ping6-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Ping IPv6 Address With ping6 Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our client was\u00a0unable to ping an IPv6 address. Although our Linux based operating system is configured for IPv6 IP address but he was getting error:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>[wpfmb type=&#8217;error&#8217; theme=2]ping 2a05:b40:0:102::e681:2ca<br \/>\nping: unknown host 2a05:b40:0:102::e681:2ca[\/wpfmb]<\/p>\n<p>Regular ping command only works with IPv4 address, So to ping <a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/how-to-configure-ipv6-address-for-linux-hosts\/\">IPv6<\/a> host type the commands as below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">ping6 localhost\r\nping6 host.domain.com\r\nping6 IPv6-address\r\nping6 2a05:b40:0:102::e681:2ca<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>The best way is to ping global website such as:<\/p>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">ping6 ipv6.google.com<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sample output would be like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"output-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">ping6 ipv6.google.com\r\nPING ipv6.google.com(wi-in-x65.1e100.net) 56 data bytes\r\n64 bytes from wi-in-x65.1e100.net: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=7.27 ms\r\n64 bytes from wi-in-x65.1e100.net: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=7.09 ms\r\n64 bytes from wi-in-x65.1e100.net: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=7.27 ms\r\n64 bytes from wi-in-x65.1e100.net: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=7.06 ms\r\n64 bytes from wi-in-x65.1e100.net: icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=7.34 ms\r\n64 bytes from wi-in-x65.1e100.net: icmp_seq=6 ttl=58 time=7.15 ms\r\n64 bytes from wi-in-x65.1e100.net: icmp_seq=7 ttl=58 time=7.41 ms\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our client was\u00a0unable to ping an IPv6 address. 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