I am having problems with my code working. For whatever reason it
tries to ping a hostname, it tries pinging an ipv6 address instead of
the ipv4 address, which is returning a status code of 11050 (General
Failure). Below is the relevant code. Anyone have an idea on how to
make it ping ipv4 instead of ipv6?

##
$ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
$reply = $ping.send("hostname")
Write-host "Ping code: $reply.status"

Ping code: 11050
##

I would imagine that there is a way to tell it what version of ip to
look at, much like you can while in the command prompt: ping hostname
-4 or ping hostname -6

Thanks for any help with this.

Boe

Hi Boe,

you can use following code: $Ping = (Get-WmiObject -Query "Select StatusCode
from Win32_PingStatus where address = 'hostname'")

Martin

"proxb" <boeprox@newsgroup> wrote in message
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> I am having problems with my code working. For whatever reason it
> tries to ping a hostname, it tries pinging an ipv6 address instead of
> the ipv4 address, which is returning a status code of 11050 (General
> Failure). Below is the relevant code. Anyone have an idea on how to
> make it ping ipv4 instead of ipv6?
>
> ##
> $ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
> $reply = $ping.send("hostname")
> Write-host "Ping code: $reply.status"
>
> Ping code: 11050
> ##
>
> I would imagine that there is a way to tell it what version of ip to
> look at, much like you can while in the command prompt: ping hostname
> -4 or ping hostname -6
>
> Thanks for any help with this.
>
> Boe

Have you tried putting the IP address in and see if it works

I did this

PS> $ping = New-Object -TypeName System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
PS> $reply = $ping.Send("127.0.0.1")
PS> $reply


Status : Success
Address : 127.0.0.1
RoundtripTime : 0
Options : System.Net.NetworkInformation.PingOptions
Buffer : {97, 98, 99, 100...}

which suggests it works on IP4 OK

I couldn't find an option to set IP 4 or IP6
--
Richard Siddaway
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"proxb" wrote:

> I am having problems with my code working. For whatever reason it
> tries to ping a hostname, it tries pinging an ipv6 address instead of
> the ipv4 address, which is returning a status code of 11050 (General
> Failure). Below is the relevant code. Anyone have an idea on how to
> make it ping ipv4 instead of ipv6?
>
> ##
> $ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
> $reply = $ping.send("hostname")
> Write-host "Ping code: $reply.status"
>
> Ping code: 11050
> ##
>
> I would imagine that there is a way to tell it what version of ip to
> look at, much like you can while in the command prompt: ping hostname
> -4 or ping hostname -6
>
> Thanks for any help with this.
>
> Boe
> .
>

I don't know if this suggestion is of much value
but it is something that I would do were this to
happen to me:

Try doing an NSLookup (against your host name)
and see what comes back...(just curious before I
would get to deep in troubleshooting.)

"RichS [MVP]" <RichSMVP@newsgroup> wrote in message
news:47392F7F-2180-4D26-80CC-3FE033073CA6@newsgroup

> Have you tried putting the IP address in and see if it works
>
> I did this
>
> PS> $ping = New-Object -TypeName System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
> PS> $reply = $ping.Send("127.0.0.1")
> PS> $reply
>
>
> Status : Success
> Address : 127.0.0.1
> RoundtripTime : 0
> Options : System.Net.NetworkInformation.PingOptions
> Buffer : {97, 98, 99, 100...}
>
> which suggests it works on IP4 OK
>
> I couldn't find an option to set IP 4 or IP6
> --
> Richard Siddaway
> All scripts are supplied "as is" and with no warranty
> PowerShell MVP
> Blog: http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/
> PowerShell User Group: http://www.get-psuguk.org.uk
>
>
> "proxb" wrote:
>

>> I am having problems with my code working. For whatever reason it
>> tries to ping a hostname, it tries pinging an ipv6 address instead of
>> the ipv4 address, which is returning a status code of 11050 (General
>> Failure). Below is the relevant code. Anyone have an idea on how to
>> make it ping ipv4 instead of ipv6?
>>
>> ##
>> $ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
>> $reply = $ping.send("hostname")
>> Write-host "Ping code: $reply.status"
>>
>> Ping code: 11050
>> ##
>>
>> I would imagine that there is a way to tell it what version of ip to
>> look at, much like you can while in the command prompt: ping hostname
>> -4 or ping hostname -6
>>
>> Thanks for any help with this.
>>
>> Boe
>> .
>>