dhcp - Pinging own machine returns an IPv6 address instead of IPv4

Monday, 9 September 2019

When I ping my own machine I get an IPv6 address:

Reply from fe80::1004:p8f0:9e40:a42c%10: time<1ms
Reply from fe80::1004:p8f0:9e40:a42c%10: time<1ms

I used to get the IPv4 address (eg. 192.168.1.5) from the router.

Why has it changed?

Answer

My problem was solved by running ipconfig /flushdns from the command prompt.

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