| Application |
Category |
IPv6 supported? |
Zone ID supported? |
Earliest version # with IPv6 support |
Notes |
Reference links |
| AbsoluteTelnet |
SSH client, Telnet client, SFTP Client |
Yes |
No |
5.01 |
Supports SSH, Telnet, and SFTP |
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| Active Directory |
LDAP server |
Yes |
|
2008 |
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| Apache httpd |
Web server |
Yes |
N/A |
2.0.14 |
"Virtual hosts on IPv6 addresses are broken in versions until 2.0.28" |
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| Apple Mail |
e-mail client |
Yes |
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| BIND |
DNS server |
Yes |
N/A |
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| BSD Telnet |
Console application |
Yes |
Yes |
1.2? |
Telnet and telnetd from OpenBSD. |
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| Cerberus FTP Server |
FTP Server |
Yes |
N/A |
3.0 |
Supports RFC 2428 FTP Extensions for IPv6 |
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| CUPS |
Digital printing |
Yes |
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1.2 |
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| cURL |
File transfer software |
Yes |
Yes |
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| ejabberd |
XMPP server |
Yes |
N/A |
0.7 or older |
Jabber server |
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| ffproxy |
Proxy server |
Yes |
|
1.5 |
Non-caching proxy. |
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| FileZilla |
FTP, FTPS and SFTP client |
Yes |
|
3.1.0-beta1 |
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| ftp.exe |
Console application |
Yes |
Yes |
5.1 (XP) |
Standard Windows FTP client. |
|
| Google Chrome |
Web browser |
Yes |
No |
Initial |
Scope identifier support is not working in Chromium (the open-source browser from which Chrome is built) as of 2014-06-10 . |
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| Hiawatha |
Web server |
Yes |
N/A |
6.0 |
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| IIS |
Web server |
Yes |
N/A |
6.0 |
Versions before 7.0 do not support bandwidth throttling, client IP address restrictions, FTP, or NNTP. |
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| Internet Explorer |
Web browser |
Yes |
Yes |
4.01 |
Versions before 7.0 may not be able to handle numerical addresses. Macintosh versions do not support IPv6. Scope identifier support verified in version 11.0 ; may be present in earlier versions (unverified). |
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| Irssi |
IRC client |
Yes |
|
0.7.15 |
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| jabberd2 |
XMPP server |
Yes |
N/A |
2.0 |
Jabber server |
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| Java |
Programming language |
Yes |
Yes |
1.4.2 |
Support on Windows XP/2003 was added in Java 1.5.0 |
|
| Konqueror |
Web browser |
Yes |
Yes |
2.2 |
|
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| lighttpd |
Web server |
Yes |
N/A |
|
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| Linux CIFS VFS |
SMB/CIFS client |
Yes |
|
1.49 |
cifs vfs version 1.48 is part of kernel 2.6.21 |
|
| Linux NetKit ftp |
Console application |
Yes |
Yes |
0.17? |
Standard Linux FTP client. |
|
| Linux NetKit Telnet |
Console application |
Yes |
Yes |
0.17? |
Standard Linux telnet client and server. |
|
| MaraDNS |
DNS server |
Partial |
N/A |
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| Microsoft DNS |
DNS server |
Yes |
N/A |
5.0 (2000) |
Windows 2000 DNS can handle AAAA records, but the operating system does not ship with IPv6. |
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| Microsoft Outlook |
e-mail client |
Yes |
|
2007 |
|
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| Microsoft SQL Server |
Database |
Yes |
|
2005 (9.0) |
|
, |
| mIRC |
IRC client |
Yes |
|
7.1 |
|
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| Mozilla / SeaMonkey |
Web browser |
Yes |
|
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IPv6 is not preferred by default on Mac OS X. |
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| Mozilla Firefox |
Web browser |
Yes |
No |
1.5 |
IPv6 is not preferred by default on Mac OS X in Firefox 1.5 or 2.0, only in 3.0. Firefox is not able to connect to a SOCKS-Proxy with IPv6 and does not support PAC-Scripts what return IPv6.
Scope identifier support was working at one time but is broken in the current version as of 2014-06-10 . |
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| Mozilla Thunderbird |
e-mail client |
Yes |
|
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Version 2.0 & later appears to work with Mac OS X Version 10.4.9. |
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| MPlayer |
Multimedia player |
Yes |
N/A |
|
For example in HTTP streaming. |
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| MySQL |
Database |
Yes |
|
5.5.3 |
Disabled by default before 5.6.6. |
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| nginx |
Web server |
Yes |
|
0.7.36 |
Full support implemented in 0.8.22 |
|
| Nmap |
Console application |
Yes |
Yes |
3.10ALPHA1 |
Zone ID support since version 4.65 |
|
| Nortel Networks VPN client |
VPN client |
? |
|
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| Novell eDirectory |
LDAP server |
No |
No |
|
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| OpenArena |
Game/FPS |
Yes |
|
0.8.1 or older |
|
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| OpenLDAP |
LDAP server |
Yes |
|
2.0.0 |
|
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| OpenSSH |
SSH client/server |
Yes |
Yes |
|
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| OpenTTD |
Game/simulation |
Yes |
|
1.0.0 |
|
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| OpenVPN |
VPN client |
Yes |
|
2.3 |
Partial support starting with version 2.0. |
|
| Opera |
Web browser |
Yes |
No |
7.20b |
IPv6 support on Macintosh was added in Opera 9.0 |
|
| Oracle |
Database |
Yes |
|
11gR1 |
|
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| Outlook Express |
e-mail client |
No |
N/A |
|
Windows Mail on the Windows Vista platform has IPv6 support. |
|
| Pidgin |
Instant messenger |
Yes |
|
2.0 (GAIM had support in older builds) |
IPv6 is enabled on Linux builds, but not on Win32 builds. |
|
| PokerTH |
Game/Card/Holdem |
Yes |
|
0.6.2 |
|
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| Polipo |
Proxy server |
Yes |
No |
0.8 |
Can be used for proxying between IPv4 and IPv6 |
|
| PostgreSQL |
Database |
Yes |
|
7.4 (8.1 on Windows) |
IPv6 broken in AIX version |
|
| Privoxy |
Proxy server |
Yes |
|
3.0.13 beta |
|
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| PuTTY |
SSH client |
Yes |
Yes |
0.58 |
Fully functional (also Zone ID's) from 0.59 |
|
| Quagga |
Routing software |
Yes |
N/A |
|
OSPFv3 area support is incomplete. |
|
| rsync |
differential file synchronizer |
Yes |
|
2.5.0 |
native IPv6 support since 2.5.0, but hosts allow/deny in rsync.conf didn't work until 2.5.6. |
|
| rTorrent |
BitTorrent client |
No |
|
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| RusHub |
Direct Connect server |
Yes |
|
2.3.3 |
|
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| Safari |
Web browser |
Yes |
No |
|
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| Samba |
SMB/CIFS client/server |
Yes |
|
3.2.0 |
|
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| Simple DNS Plus |
DNS server |
Yes |
N/A |
5.0 (Jan 2008) |
|
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| Skype |
VoIP |
No |
|
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|
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| SmartFTP |
FTP and SFTP client |
Yes |
|
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|
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| srelay |
SOCKS server |
Yes |
N/A |
|
|
|
| Squid cache |
Proxy server |
Yes |
|
3.1 |
|
| Teeworlds |
Game/Side-scroller |
Yes |
|
0.6.0 |
|
|
| telnet.exe |
Console application |
Yes |
Yes |
5.1 (XP) |
Standard Windows telnet client. |
|
| The Bat! |
e-mail client |
Yes |
Yes |
3.95.01 |
E-mail client for Windows. |
|
| TightVNC |
VNC |
Optional |
|
Protocol version 3.5 |
Experimental IPv6 builds were made available in 2004. |
|
| tinc |
VPN client |
Yes |
|
1.0 |
Defaults to IPv6; can be set to IPv4-only. |
|
| tinydns |
DNS server |
Yes |
N/A |
1.05? |
|
|
| Trillian |
Instant Messenger |
No |
No |
|
|
|
| UDP Speed Test 3 |
Network Speed Test Tool |
Yes |
Yes |
3.05 |
Unicast, Broadcast, Multicast, Anycast. |
|
| VLC |
Multimedia player |
Yes |
|
|
|
|
| UploadFTP |
FTP, FTPS and SFTP Client |
Yes |
|
2.0 |
|
|
| VMware vSphere Client |
Systems management client |
Yes |
|
4.0.0 |
Performance reports do not support IPv6, but everything else appears to. This was tested using IPv6>IPv4 PT, where the server is on the IPv4 side. |
|
| Warzone 2100 |
Game/RTS |
Yes |
|
3.1.1 or older |
|
|
| Webmin |
Web-based remote administration tool |
Yes |
|
1.530 |
|
|
| WeeChat |
IRC client |
Yes |
|
0.1.3[1] |
|
|
| Wget |
File transfer software |
Yes |
|
1.9? |
May default to IPv4 transfers: "-6" option used to override. |
|
| Winamp |
Multimedia player |
Yes |
|
5.34 |
|
|
| Windows Live Mail |
e-mail client |
Yes |
|
Initial |
|
|
| Windows Mail |
e-mail client |
Yes |
|
Initial |
|
|
| Windows Media Player |
Multimedia player |
Yes |
|
9.0? |
|
|
| Windows File and print sharing |
SMB/CIFS client/server |
Yes |
|
5.2 (Server 2003) |
Windows XP 32-bit does not support IPv6 at the SMB/CIFS layer. The protocol is available for other applications ("ipv6 install" pre-SP1; protocol install afterwards). |
|
| World of Warcraft |
Game/MMORPG |
Yes |
|
patch 4.1.0 |
|
|
| WWWOFFLE |
Proxy server |
Yes |
No |
2.6d |
|
|
| XChat |
IRC client |
Yes |
|
1.7.0 |
|
|
| xinetd |
Networking daemon |
Yes |
|
1.89 |
Version 2.3.3 or newer recommended to avoid security issues. |
|
| µTorrent |
BitTorrent client |
Yes |
|
1.8 |
|
|
| Transmission |
BitTorrent client |
Yes |
|
1.5 |
No official Windows version. |
|
| Cisco AnyConnect |
VPN Client |
Yes |
Yes |
2.0 |
No split tunneling allowed in IPv6. ASA 8.4 software required for full IPv6 mode. |
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