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