What Does It Mean When Ping Returns IPv6 Instead of IPv4? When you open Command Prompt in Windows 11 and ping a hostname — say, ping google.com — you might expect to see a familiar dotted-decimal IPv4 address like 142.250.190.46. Instead, the response comes back with a long alphanumeric string such as 2607:f8b0:4004:800::200e. That is … Read more