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Is it possible to open an IPv6 address as a URL in a web browser?

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n4thanl | 2 years, 2 months ago view on twitter
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No problem. Here's an example:

http://2001:4860:0:2001::68/

You need to have IPv6 yourself, though.

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cavaleer | 2 years, 2 months ago Report

Well, this s****. The text posting process seems to remove square brackets!

Anyway, as I stated before, you do need to put square brackets around an IPv6 literal address as defined in RFC 2732.

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n4thanl | 2 years, 2 months ago Report

I had square brackets; mine disappeared too!!

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cavaleer | 2 years, 2 months ago Report

Actually, the above answer may not work.

If it does not, try http://2002:4860:2001::68
Note the square brackets ... as defined in RFC 2732 for literal IPv6 addresses.

The format defined in «RFC 2732» has been implemented in the IPv6 versions of several widely deployed browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Lynx.

Read more: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2732.html

As the answerer said though, you do need to have IPv6 (the IPv6 protocol stack) installed on your computer. The best way to check is to do a: ping -6 ipv6.google.com
the -6 forces the ping through the IPv6 stack and out to ipv6.google.com which is an IPv6 only destination. Obviously, if you don't receive a response back (from ipv6.1.google.com) you do not have IPv6 connectivity.

To get IPv6 connectivity for your machine is like a thousand more questions.

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