ip6addr

Commandline tool to deal with IPv6 address text representations

https://github.com/MichelBoucey/ip6addr

Version on this page:1.0.1
LTS Haskell 23.18:2.0.0
Stackage Nightly 2025-04-18:2.0.0
Latest on Hackage:2.0.0

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Michel Boucey
Maintained by [email protected]
This version can be pinned in stack with:ip6addr-1.0.1@sha256:7e0a03e46353152db395ed80cad48f700d7148a489c5e4638c8ce81b598af7d8,972

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ip6addr Build Status

A commandline tool that validates and generates IPv6 address text representations

  • Canonical, in conformation with RFC 5952 (default output)
  • Pure, i.e. rewriting IPv4 address if present
  • Full length
  • Reverse lookup domain name, in conformation with RFC 3596 Section 2.5
  • Windows UNC path name
  • Random generation for test purpose
    [user@box ~]$ ip6addr -a 0:0::FFFF:192.0.2.128  
    ::ffff:192.0.2.128  
    [user@box ~]$ ip6addr -o pure -a 0:0::FFFF:192.0.2.128  
    ::ffff:c000:280  
    [user@box ~]$ ip6addr -o arpa -a 0:0::FFFF:192.0.2.128  
    0.8.2.0.0.0.0.c.f.f.f.f.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA.  
    [user@box ~]$ ip6addr -o unc -a 2001:db8:85a3:8d3:1319:8a2e:370:7348
    2001-db8-85a3-8d3-1319-8a2e-370-7348.ipv6-literal.net    
    [user@box ~]$ ip6addr -o full -a 0:0::FFFF:192.0.2.128  
    0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:c000:0280  
    [user@box ~]$ ip6addr -o random  
    ca18::654a:57ab:2ed7  
    [user@box ~]$ ip6addr -o random -q 4  
    488:f7f3:7f7e::6ffd  
    5b8b:8ab4::f0b8  
    f191:ecc9:8193:8a2:104c:fec1:0:8c4d  
    af3b:3ffd:8302:6c56::8623:26  
    [user@box ~]$ ip6addr -o random -q 3 -p 1234:1ab2::  
    1234:1a2b::cda6:cf2a:bb1d:d70b  
    1234:1a2b::362c:8295:f546:a43a  
    1234:1a2b::1121:ca16:ab5:688a