Today's article has you using wget with one or the other of IPv4 or IPv6

[KGIII]

The title says it well enough. It's actually pretty easy.

Make wget Use IPv4 or IPv6 • Linux Tips

Today's article is a fun one, an article where you learn how to make wget use IPv4 or IPv6. Not only is this useful, it's easy! In fact, it's easy enough for most anyone to figure out.

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[shubhamsharma9418]

For wget over IPv4 , you can use "-4" argument:

[root@server ~]# wget -4 "google.com" --2022-07-13 12:30:09-- http://google.com/ Resolving google.com (google.com)... 172.253.115.101, 172.253.115.113, 172.253.115.102, ... Connecting to google.com (google.com)|172.253.115.101|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://www.google.com/ [following] --2022-07-13 12:30:09-- http://www.google.com/ Resolving www.google.com (www.google.com)... 172.253.122.103, 172.253.122.147, 172.253.122.99, ... Connecting to www.google.com (www.google.com)|172.253.122.103|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: ‘index.html.18’ [ <=> ] 13,974 --.-K/s in 0.002s 2022-07-13 12:30:09 (7.52 MB/s) - ‘index.html.18’ saved [13974] [root@server ~]#

wget over IPv6, you can use "-6" argument:

[root@server ~]# wget -6 "google.com" --2022-07-13 12:30:03-- http://google.com/ Resolving google.com (google.com)... 2607:f8b0:4004:c17::8a, 2607:f8b0:4004:c17::71, 2607:f8b0:4004:c17::64, ... Connecting to google.com (google.com)|2607:f8b0:4004:c17::8a|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://www.google.com/ [following] --2022-07-13 12:30:03-- http://www.google.com/ Resolving www.google.com (www.google.com)... 2607:f8b0:4004:c06::63, 2607:f8b0:4004:c06::69, 2607:f8b0:4004:c06::6a, ... Connecting to www.google.com (www.google.com)|2607:f8b0:4004:c06::63|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: ‘index.html.17’ [ <=> ] 14,012 --.-K/s in 0.009s 2022-07-13 12:30:03 (1.51 MB/s) - ‘index.html.17’ saved [14012] [root@server ~]#