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Encyclopedia > Comparison of IPv6 application support

This is a comparison of popular Internet applications in regards to their support of the IPv6 protocol. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a network layer protocol for packet-switched internetworks. ...


IPv6 support table

Application Category IPv6 supported? Zone ID supported? Earliest version # with IPv6 support Notes Reference links
ftp.exe Console application Yes Yes 5.1 (XP) Standard Windows FTP client.
Linux NetKit ftp Console application Yes Yes 0.17? Standard Linux FTP client.
telnet.exe Console application Yes Yes 5.1 (XP) Standard Windows telnet client.
Linux NetKit Telnet Console application Yes Yes 0.17? Standard Linux telnet client and server.
BSD Telnet Console application Yes Yes 1.2? Telnet and telnetd from OpenBSD.
Nmap Console application Yes No 3.10ALPHA1 [1]
PuTTY SSH client Yes Yes 0.58 Fully functional (also Zone ID's) from 0.59 [2]
OpenSSH SSH client/server Yes Yes
CUPS Digital printing Yes 1.2 [3]
Internet Explorer Web browser Yes No 4.01 May have trouble with numerical addresses. Macintosh version does not support IPv6. [4][5][6]
Konqueror Web browser Yes Yes 2.2 [7]
Mozilla / SeaMonkey Web browser Yes IPv6 is not preferred by default on OS X. [8] [9] [10]
Mozilla Firefox Web browser Yes No 1.5 IPv6 is not preferred by default on OS X. [11] [12]
Opera Web browser Yes No 7.20b IPv6 support on Macintosh was added in Opera 9.0 [13] [14] [15] [16]
Safari Web browser Yes No [17]
Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client Yes Version 2.0 & later appears to work with OS X 10.4.9. [18]
Outlook Express e-mail client No N/A Windows Mail on the Windows Vista platform may have IPv6 support. [19]
Microsoft Outlook e-mail client Yes 2003?
Apple Mail e-mail client Yes
Windows Media Player Multimedia player Yes 9.0? [20]
VLC Multimedia player Yes
TightVNC VNC Optional Protocol version 3.5 Experimental IPv6-only builds were made available in 2004. [21]
Winamp Multimedia player Yes 5.34 [22]
xinetd Networking daemon Yes 1.89 Version 2.3.3 or newer recommended to avoid security issues. [23]
Apache Web server Yes N/A 2.0.14 "Virtual hosts on IPv6 addresses are broken in versions until 2.0.28" [24]
IIS Web server Yes N/A 6.0
Windows File and print sharing SMB/CIFS client/server Yes 5.2 (Server 2003) Windows XP does not support IPv6 at the SMB/CIFS layer. The protocol is available for other applications as of SP1. [25] [26]
Samba SMB/CIFS client/server Planned Patches are available that add IPv6 support. [27]
Linux CIFS VFS SMB/CIFS client Yes 1.49 cifs vfs version 1.48 is part of kernel 2.6.21 [28]
Wget File transfer software Yes 1.9? [29]
cURL File transfer software Yes
BIND DNS server Yes N/A 4.9.4, 8.4.1?
Microsoft DNS DNS server Yes N/A 5.0 (2000) Windows 2000 DNS can handle AAAA records, but the operating system does not implement an IPv6 networking stack. [30]
Pidgin Instant messenger Yes N/A 2.0 (GAIM had support in older builds) IPv6 is enabled on Linux builds, but not on Win32 builds. [31]

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OpenSSH (Open Secure Shell) is a set of computer programs providing encrypted communication sessions over a computer network using the SSH protocol. ... SSH client is software programm for managing Secure shell. ... Cups may refer to: the Common Unix Printing System cup as a drinking vessel, a unit of volume, etc. ... Digital printing is the reproduction of digital images on physical surface, such as common or photographic paper, film, cloth, plastic, etc. ... Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer), and commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of proprietary graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995. ... An example of a web browser (Internet Explorer), displaying the English Wikipedia main page. ... Konqueror is a file manager, web browser and file viewer, which was developed as part of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) by volunteers and runs on most Unix-like operating systems. ... An example of a web browser (Internet Explorer), displaying the English Wikipedia main page. ... The Mozilla Application Suite (originally known as Mozilla, marketed as the Mozilla Suite, and code named Seamonkey) is a free, cross-platform internet suite, whose components include a web browser, an e-mail and news client, an HTML editor, and an IRC client. ... SeaMonkey is a free, open source, and cross-platform Internet suite that is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite. ... An example of a web browser (Internet Explorer), displaying the English Wikipedia main page. ... Mozilla Firefox is a graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation and a large community of external contributors. ... An example of a web browser (Internet Explorer), displaying the English Wikipedia main page. ... Opera is a cross-platform web browser and Internet suite which handles common internet-related tasks including visiting web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting online and displaying Widgets. ... An example of a web browser (Internet Explorer), displaying the English Wikipedia main page. ... Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. ... An example of a web browser (Internet Explorer), displaying the English Wikipedia main page. ... Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation. ... {{ #REDIRECT [[ --216. ... For the personal information manager included in the Microsoft Office suite, see Microsoft Outlook. ... {{ #REDIRECT [[ --216. ... Windows Mail is an e-mail and newsgroup client included in recent versions of Microsoft Windows, such as Windows Vista. ... Windows Vista is a line of graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, Tablet PCs, and media centers. ... Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook since Outlook 2003) is a personal information manager from Microsoft, and is part of the Microsoft Office suite. ... {{ #REDIRECT [[ --216. ... Apple Mail 1. ... {{ #REDIRECT [[ --216. ... Windows Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. ... Multimedia is the use of several different media to convey information (text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity). ... VLC is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below: VLC media player Visible Light Communications technology Valencia Airport - IATA airport code VLC Variable Length Coding This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page—a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Multimedia is the use of several different media to convey information (text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity). ... Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote desktop protocol to remote control another computer. ... Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a remote desktop protocol to remote control another computer. ... Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, a subsidiary of Time Warner. ... Multimedia is the use of several different media to convey information (text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity). ... The correct title of this article is xinetd. ... The term Daemon has several meanings: Daemon (mythology) - see also Demon Daemon (computer software), a background process Dæmon (His Dark Materials) in the Philip Pullman trilogy of novels His Dark Materials Daemon (Warhammer) Daemon (Warcraft) Daemon Sadi (SaDiablo) is a character in the Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop. ... The Apache HTTP Server is a web server for Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare, Mac OS X and other operating systems. ... The inside/front of a Dell PowerEdge web server The term Web server can mean one of two things: A computer that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are known as Web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are Web... IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Services or Server) is a set of Internet based services for Windows machines. ... The inside/front of a Dell PowerEdge web server The term Web server can mean one of two things: A computer that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are known as Web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are Web... Server Message Block (SMB) is an application-level network protocol mainly applied to shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. ... Server Message Block (SMB) is an application-level network protocol mainly applied to shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. ... Windows XP is a line of proprietary operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ... Samba is a free software re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License. ... Server Message Block (SMB) is an application-level network protocol mainly applied to shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. ... A virtual file system (VFS) or virtual filesystem switch is an abstraction layer on top of a more concrete file system. ... Server Message Block (SMB) is an application-level network protocol mainly applied to shared access to files, printers, serial ports, and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. ... GNU Wget is a free software program that implements simple and powerful content retrieval from web servers and is part of the GNU project. ... A download manager is a computer program designed to download files from the Internet, unlike a web browser, which is mainly intended to browse webpages on the World Wide Web (with file downloading being of secondary importance). ... In vector calculus, curl is a vector operator that shows a vector fields rate of rotation: the direction of the axis of rotation and the magnitude of the rotation. ... A download manager is a computer program designed to download files from the Internet, unlike a web browser, which is mainly intended to browse webpages on the World Wide Web (with file downloading being of secondary importance). ... BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain, previously: Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) is the most commonly used DNS server on the Internet, especially on Unix-like systems, where it is a de facto standard. ... On the Internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) stores and associates many types of information with domain names; most importantly, it serves as the phone book for the internet, translating human-friendly domain names and computer hostnames, e. ... The DNS support in Microsoft Windows NT (and thus its derivatives Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003) comprises two clients and a server. ... On the Internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) stores and associates many types of information with domain names; most importantly, it serves as the phone book for the internet, translating human-friendly domain names and computer hostnames, e. ... Windows 2000 (also referred to as Win2K) is a preemptible, interruptible, graphical and business-oriented operating system that was designed to work with either uniprocessor or symmetric multi-processor 32-bit Intel x86 computers. ... Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a network layer protocol for packet-switched internetworks. ... Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a popular multi-platform instant messaging client that supports many commonly used instant messaging protocols. ... A screenshot of PowWow, one of the first instant messengers with a graphical user interface An instant messenger is a client which allows instant text communication between two or more people through a network such as the Internet. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system. ... Windows API is a set of APIs, (application programming interfaces) available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. ...

Other references

  • "Current Status of IPv6 Support for Networking Applications": last updated in 3-2006.
  • "IPv6 Enabled Applications": last updated in 3-2003.
  • "Hints for IPv6-enabled daemons": chapter 21 of TLDP's Linux IPv6 HOWTO.
  • Implementing AF-independent application by Jun-ichiro 'itojun' Itoh.
  • Porting Applications to IPv6 bye Eva M. Castro.


 
 

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