Silly IPv6 Question

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I've heard today that YouTube has now switched over onto IPv6 and was just keen to see what a IPv6 address would look like.

So I've gone to command prompt and typed "PING www.youtube.com" expecting back the 128bit IP Address.

But it's just returned the IP address as the usual 32bit method.

Is there a way (in Windows7) to view the IPv6 address of YouTube?

Nothing major, just curious that's all.
 
You'd need to be using an internet connection (and subsequently ISP, network hardware, and LAN configuration) that was configured for IPv6.

Alternatively you can set up an IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel using one of the many free IPv6 tunnel brokers out there, but there really is little point at this moment in time.
 
Not much out there V6 enabled at the moment though I personally don't think there is anything wrong with learning and experimenting with it.

Like it or not IPV4 addresses will be all but exhausted in the next couple of years and then people will have to learn very quickly so having a head start is no bad thing.

If you wanted to set up tunnelled V6 then have a look at http://www.sixxs.net/
 
They're pretty darn ugly, to be honest:

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Their standard notation is hexadecimal. Unlike IPv4 addresses which were decimal and thus more human friendly.

Fortunately the specification lets you miss off any parts which are zero. So presumably there will be a mad rush to buy up decent IPv6 blocks in a few years which contain the most zeros.
 
There are some situations where a section of zeros can't be omitted, in your example it works fine, but if the address was 2001:0000:0000:FE01:0000:0000:0000:0000 you couldn't have 2001::FE01::, there are some rules to what can and can't be omitted.

Some things are simplified though, such as the local loopback address being simply ::1 instead of IPv4s 127.0.0.0/8
 
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