Retrieve IPv6 address of website using terminal

Question

Both the nslookup and host commands return IPv4 addresses only. How can i retrieve the IPv6 address of a website using the terminal?

(I have googled around, unfortunately I couldn't find anything useful)

host does return IPv6 addresses if they're available. – user235504 Oct 31 '15 at 00:01 — user235504, Oct 31 '15 at 00:01

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 31 '15 at 03:25

You need a way to specify that you want to retrieve an AAAA record instead of an A record. You'll want to use the dig command for this, which is the replacement for nslookup anyways.

dig AAAA websitehostname

or if you don't want the verbose output:

dig AAAA +short websitehostname

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 31 '15 at 08:04

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The usual way is to ask for the AAAA resource:

nslookup -query=AAAA $hostname

And:

dig AAAA $hostname

answered Oct 31 '15 at 08:04

Retrieve IPv6 address of website using terminal

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