IPv6 address by hostname

Question

Is there any command in Linux to get the IPv6 address of a hostname?

I tried NSLookup, but it doesn't seem to have an option to get the IPv6 address for the specified hostname or perhaps I missed it.

I have a C program that deals with IPv6 and I want to check if I am getting correct results by using a different method to obtain the IPv6 address of a host.

Solution 1

With nslookup, just query for the AAAA record type used for IPv6 addresses:

nslookup -query=AAAA $hostname

Solution 2

You can also use dig or host:

host -t AAAA www.google.com

dig www.google.com AAAA

Comments

[user44273]

oops, my bad, thanks anyway

[Smit Johnth]

Works at least on Windows XP too.