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There is a machine on our network called owner-pc. I want to learn its ip address. I'm not sure which computer it is, and I don't want to trundle to each station to figure it out. When I ping it from the command line on a windows machine, I get something like this:

Reply from: fe80::3039:2a21:3f57:f337%1: time<1ms
Reply from: fe80::3039:2a21:3f57:f337%1: time<1ms
Reply from: fe80::3039:2a21:3f57:f337%1: time<1ms
Reply from: fe80::3039:2a21:3f57:f337%1: time<1ms

How can I figure this out?

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Try ping -4 owner-pc

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oops should have been an answer

nslookup owner-pc

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Thats interesting. I wonder if you're using IPv6. It looks kinda like an IPv6 address.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6

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yes its ipv6 thus ping -4 works or nslookup – user33788 May 27 '10 at 20:19
I'm new to IPv6. I was not able to find a description of ping -4 on google. Does ping -4 convert an IPv6 address to IPv4? – James T May 27 '10 at 21:21
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sorry if I seemed scruffy, but no ping -4 just forces ping to use v4 addressing. – user33788 May 27 '10 at 22:02
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