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  • “Ping Hostname” Returning an IPv6 Address Instead of IPv4? (Windows)

    23:05 on May 31, 2012 | 0 Comments
    Tags: , , windows

    On Windows based PCs and Servers, and where IPv6 is enabled on one of the network adapters, you may find that when you do a:

    ping name-of-host

    … you get an IPv6 address returned in the results.  But what if you want to test IPv4 connectivity?  You can add a -4 switch to the ping command to force it to use IPv4 as follows:

    ping -4 name-of-host

    Ping will now ping the IPv4 address as opposed to the IPv6.

    It’s worth noting, that if you do want to test for IPv6 connectivity, you can add a -6 switch to force that:

    ping -6 name-of-host
     

  • When Did You Last Reboot Your Microsoft Windows 7 Machine? (Check Uptime)

    13:50 on June 5, 2010 | 0 Comments
    Tags: , windows

    Finding out when you last rebooted your Windows 7 machine can be completed using the “systeminfo” command.

    Open a Command Prompt by going to Start and opening “cmd”. You will then be presented with a command prompt window, where you need to type the systeminfo command below:

    C:\> systeminfo | find "System Boot Time"
System Boot Time:          05/06/2010, 12:55:07

    You will then be shown the date and time the server was booted (as seen in the example above).

    You can just run “systeminfo” on it’s own (with no ‘| find “System Boot Time”‘), and you will be presented with a lot of other information such as Hotfixes, Network Connections, etc.

     

  • Installing the Telnet Client on Windows 2008 using a Command Prompt

    22:47 on June 2, 2010 | 0 Comments
    Tags: , windows

    Like Windows 7 and Windows Vista, the Telnet client isn’t installed by default.

    In Windows Server 2008, you can install it via the Server Manager GUI tool, but it is often quicker to install it via a command prompt/terminal.

    So, open a cmd.exe session and run the following:

    servermanagercmd -install telnet-client

    And that’s it – once the command has completed, telnet.exe will be available from a command prompt.

     

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