How to ping IPv6 address?

ping command only works with IPv4 addresses. If you wish to ping IPv6 addresses then you need to use ping6 command.

Type following commands to check IPV6 host:

Code:

$ ping6 localhost
$ ping6 host.domain.com
$ ping6 IPv6-address
$ ping6 2001:4860:b002::68

To ping global website such as ipv6.google.com, enter following command:

$ ping6 ipv6.google.com

Sample output:

Code:

ping6 ipv6.google.com
PING ipv6.google.com(2001:4860:b002::68) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2001:4860:b002::68: icmp_seq=0 ttl=59 time=58.4 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4860:b002::68: icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=56.4 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4860:b002::68: icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=62.1 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4860:b002::68: icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=56.8 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4860:b002::68: icmp_seq=4 ttl=59 time=56.5 ms
64 bytes from 2001:4860:b002::68: icmp_seq=5 ttl=59 time=59.5 ms

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