[Linux-aus] World ipv6 day

[Tony Breeds]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:36:24PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:

> Is it true that IPv6 requires javascript?

Nope.
 
> All of the web pages that I have found, to test for IPv6
> compatibility, appear to require javascript, indicating that
> javascript is required, to be compatible with IPv6.

That's a fairly long bow to draw.  Anyway for a very simple test try:
wget -6 http://whatismyip.bakeyournoodle.com/ -o /dev/null -O -

It will print the IP address of the client socket, so if you're using
IPv6 you'll see an IPv6 address there.
eg:

tony at bilbo:~$ wget -6 http://whatismyip.bakeyournoodle.com/ -o /dev/null -O -
2402:b800:7003:1:1::1
tony at bilbo:~$ wget -4 http://whatismyip.bakeyournoodle.com/ -o /dev/null -O -
203.10.76.45

Yours Tony