When I run netstat there are some entries such as TCP [::]:8010 computername LISTENING
What does that mean? It is impossible to search for...
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2My knowledge is not up to giving a proper answer, but I do recognise it as IPv6.– HennesNov 1, 2012 at 21:23
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5Oh so I guess it is the equivalent of 0.0.0.0 in IPv6?– carpatNov 1, 2012 at 21:24
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1Yep, that's the gist of it.– MDMarraNov 1, 2012 at 21:32
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:: can be used once in an IPv6 address to replace a consecutive blocks of zeroes. It can be any length of zeroes as long as it is greater than a single block. All zeroes in a single block can be represented by :0: instead of writing out all four zeroes.
In this case, it means all zeroes, or the IPv6 equivalent of the IPv4 0.0.0.0
As an example of something that is not all zeroes:
fe80:0000:0000:0000:34cb:9850:4868:9d2c
Which is properly "reduced" to:
fe80::34cb:9850:4868:9d2c
As an example, it can also be written as:
fe80:0:0:0:34cb:9850:4868:9d2c
but that is far less common than just "double coloning" it.
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1You didn't expand the actual IP address OP asked for, mention that the "all zeros" IP address is the "unspecified address" for when IP is unknown, nor explain the square brackets delimit the IP address from the port number. Please update your answer. Nov 20, 2015 at 15:12
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1Non-zero blocks can be abbreviated as well by removing the leading zeros for that block. For example: 0000:00ff:0099:0101:0000:0200:0000:0000 can be abbreviated as 0:ff:99:101:0:200:: Nov 16, 2018 at 19:54
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docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-4554/ipv6-overview-24/… writes "You can use the two colon notation to replace any contiguous fields of all zeros in the IPv6 address.", and the last example replaces only a single block. Does that contradict what you say in "... as long as it is greater than a single block"?– bersApr 11, 2021 at 6:28
:: is the IPv6 "unspecified" address, equivalent to 0.0.0.0 - the [] is notation to separate the address from the port specifier.
A program bound to :: will be given traffic for any actual IPv6 address assigned to the system - it may also receive IPv4 traffic too in the form of IPv6-mapped IPv4 addresses (::ffff:x.x.x.x) although this is dependent on the socket options set by the application.
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Sources: tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4291#section-2.5.2 tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5952#section-4 Aug 25, 2014 at 19:37
This issue and diagram is helpful for understanding the "big picture":
https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/9390#issuecomment-278001837
