| 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 |
[1] |
| Active Directory |
LDAP server |
Yes |
|
2008 |
|
[2] [3] [4] |
| Apache httpd |
Web server |
Yes |
N/A |
2.0.14 |
"Virtual hosts on IPv6 addresses are broken in versions until 2.0.28" |
[5] |
| Apple Mail |
e-mail client |
Yes |
|
|
|
|
| BIND |
DNS server |
Yes |
N/A |
|
|
|
| BSD Telnet |
Console application |
Yes |
Yes |
1.2? |
Telnet and telnetd from OpenBSD. |
|
| Cerberus FTP Server |
FTP Server |
Yes |
N/A |
3.0 |
Supports RFC 2428 FTP Extensions for IPv6 |
[6] |
| CUPS |
Digital printing |
Yes |
|
1.2 |
|
[7] |
| cURL |
File transfer software |
Yes |
|
|
|
| ejabberd |
XMPP server |
Yes |
N/A |
0.7 or older |
Jabber server |
[8] |
| ffproxy |
Proxy server |
Yes |
|
1.5 |
Non-caching proxy. |
|
| FileZilla |
FTP, FTPS and SFTP client |
Yes |
|
3.1.0-beta1 |
|
[9][10] |
| ftp.exe |
Console application |
Yes |
Yes |
5.1 (XP) |
Standard Windows FTP client. |
|
| Google Chrome |
Web browser |
Yes |
|
Initial |
|
|
| Hiawatha |
Web server |
Yes |
N/A |
6.0 |
|
|
| IIS |
Web server |
Yes |
N/A |
6.0 |
Versions before 7.0 do not support bandwidth throttling, client IP address restrictions, FTP, or NNTP. |
[11] |
| Internet Explorer |
Web browser |
Yes |
No |
4.01 |
Versions before 7.0 may not be able to handle numerical addresses. Macintosh versions do not support IPv6. |
[12][13][14] |
| Irssi |
IRC client |
Yes |
|
0.7.15 |
|
[15] |
| jabberd2 |
XMPP server |
Yes |
N/A |
2.0 |
Jabber server |
|
| Java |
Programming language |
Yes |
Yes |
1.4.2 |
Support on Windows XP/2003 was added in Java 1.5.0 |
[16][17][18] |
| Konqueror |
Web browser |
Yes |
Yes |
2.2 |
|
[19] |
| lighttpd |
Web server |
Yes |
N/A |
|
|
|
| Linux CIFS VFS |
SMB/CIFS client |
Yes |
|
1.49 |
cifs vfs version 1.48 is part of kernel 2.6.21 |
[20] |
| 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 |
|
|
|
| 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. |
[21] |
| Microsoft Outlook |
e-mail client |
Yes |
|
2003? |
|
|
| Microsoft SQL Server |
Database |
Yes |
|
2005 (9.0) |
|
[22], [23] |
| mIRC |
IRC client |
Yes |
|
7.1 |
|
|
| Mozilla / SeaMonkey |
Web browser |
Yes |
|
|
IPv6 is not preferred by default on Mac OS X. |
[24] [25] [26] |
| Mozilla Firefox |
Web browser |
Yes |
Yes |
1.5 |
IPv6 is not preferred by default on Mac OS X in Firefox 1.5 or 2.0, only in 3.0. |
[27] [28] |
| Mozilla Thunderbird |
e-mail client |
Yes |
|
|
Version 2.0 & later appears to work with Mac OS X Version 10.4.9. |
[29] |
| MPlayer |
Multimedia player |
Yes |
N/A |
|
For example in HTTP streaming. |
|
| MySQL |
Database |
Yes |
|
5.5.3 |
Disabled by default before 5.6.6. |
[30] [31] |
| nginx |
Web server |
Yes |
|
0.7.36 |
Full support implemented in 0.8.22 |
[32] [33] |
| Nmap |
Console application |
Yes |
Yes |
3.10ALPHA1 |
Zone ID support since version 4.65 |
[34] |
| Nortel Networks VPN client |
VPN client |
? |
|
|
|
[35] |
| Novell eDirectory |
LDAP server |
No |
No |
|
|
|
| OpenLDAP |
LDAP server |
Yes |
|
2.0.0 |
|
[36] |
| OpenSSH |
SSH client/server |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
| OpenTTD |
Game/simulation |
Yes |
|
1.0.0 |
|
[37] |
| OpenVPN |
VPN client |
Yes |
|
2.3 |
Partial support starting with version 2.0. |
[38] [39] |
| Opera |
Web browser |
Yes |
No |
7.20b |
IPv6 support on Macintosh was added in Opera 9.0 |
[40] [41] [42] [43] |
| Oracle |
Database |
Yes |
|
11gR1 |
|
[44] |
| Outlook Express |
e-mail client |
No |
N/A |
|
Windows Mail on the Windows Vista platform has IPv6 support. |
[45] |
| Pidgin |
Instant messenger |
Yes |
|
2.0 (GAIM had support in older builds) |
IPv6 is enabled on Linux builds, but not on Win32 builds. |
[46] |
| 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 |
|
[47] [48] |
| PuTTY |
SSH client |
Yes |
Yes |
0.58 |
Fully functional (also Zone ID's) from 0.59 |
[49] |
| Quagga |
Routing software |
Yes |
N/A |
|
OSPFv3 area support is incomplete. |
[50] [51] |
| 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. |
[52] [53] |
| rTorrent |
BitTorrent client |
No |
|
|
|
|
| RusHub |
Direct Connect server |
Yes |
|
2.3.3 |
|
[54] |
| Safari |
Web browser |
Yes |
No |
|
|
[55] |
| Samba |
SMB/CIFS client/server |
Yes |
|
3.2.0 |
|
[56] |
| Simple DNS Plus |
DNS server |
Yes |
N/A |
5.0 (Jan 2008) |
|
[57] |
| Skype |
VoIP |
No |
|
|
|
[58] |
| SmartFTP |
FTP and SFTP client |
Yes |
|
|
|
|
| srelay |
SOCKS server |
Yes |
N/A |
|
|
|
| Squid cache |
Proxy server |
Yes |
|
3.1 |
[59] [60] |
| telnet.exe |
Console application |
Yes |
Yes |
5.1 (XP) |
Standard Windows telnet client. |
|
| TightVNC |
VNC |
Optional |
|
Protocol version 3.5 |
Experimental IPv6 builds were made available in 2004. |
[61] |
| tinc |
VPN client |
Yes |
|
1.0 |
Defaults to IPv6; can be set to IPv4-only. |
[62] |
| tinydns |
DNS server |
Yes |
N/A |
1.05? |
|
[63] |
| Trillian |
Instant Messenger |
No |
No |
|
|
[64] |
| UDP Speed Test 3 |
Network Speed Test Tool |
Yes |
Yes |
3.05 |
Unicast, Broadcast, Multicast, Anycast. |
[65] |
| VLC |
Multimedia player |
Yes |
|
|
|
|
| UploadFTP |
FTP, FTPS and SFTP Client |
Yes |
|
2.0 |
|
[66] |
| 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.[original research?] |
|
| Webmin |
Web-based remote administration tool |
Yes |
|
1.530 |
|
[67] |
| WeeChat |
IRC client |
Yes |
|
0.1.3[1] |
|
[68] |
| Wget |
File transfer software |
Yes |
|
1.9? |
May default to IPv4 transfers: "-6" option used to override. |
[69] |
| Winamp |
Multimedia player |
Yes |
|
5.34 |
|
[70] |
| Windows Live Mail |
e-mail client |
Yes |
|
Initial |
|
|
| Windows Mail |
e-mail client |
Yes |
|
Initial |
|
|
| Windows Media Player |
Multimedia player |
Yes |
|
9.0? |
|
[71] |
| 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). |
[72] [73] [74] |
| WWWOFFLE |
Proxy server |
Yes |
No |
2.6d |
|
[75] |
| XChat |
IRC client |
Yes |
|
1.7.0 |
|
[76] |
| xinetd |
Networking daemon |
Yes |
|
1.89 |
Version 2.3.3 or newer recommended to avoid security issues. |
[77] |
| 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. |
[78] [79] |
