Vista - $ping.send(hostname) pings ipv6 instead of ipv4 address

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
news:4c685174-1727-4de3-9572-df3d6b4bf70a@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
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