Dns.GetHostAddresses() only returns IPv6 addresses . How to get Local IPv4?

Question

According to Dotnet reference ,

Dns.GetHostAddresses("") 

should return IPv4 addresses . However I am getting only IPv6 on my windows 7 machine. I tried the program on a different windows 7 still the same result. It only returned IPv4 correctly on an XP machine.

If I try ,

Dns.GetHostEntry("");

It now correctly returns one IPv4 and one IPv6 . How do I get IPv4 from GetHostAddresses() because I don't want to use GetHostEntry(). It looks up the DNS.

Also, say for a computer with 1 Network card, the code returns an array of 2 identical IPv6 . Is this normal ?

Answer 1

This works for me:

IPHostEntry ipHostEntry = Dns.GetHostEntry("example.com");
IPAddress ipAddress = ipHostEntry.AddressList.First(a => a.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork); // ipv4

It's normal to have two ipv6 addresses, one which contains your MAC address which guarantees its uniqueness, and another which doesn't to increase your privacy/security. But I don't know why yours would be identical .