Because what I wanted to do was dynamically get the localhost, this is for scripts that will run on multiple machines, and then use that to get the IPv6 address I came up with the following. I put the print statements in just so I can check that I have things following the right paths for various machines, and right now once I get the address the script exits. After I test it on a sampling of machines I will update this to just send the IP address back, the regular expression still needs work, but I haven't found a good way to pull IPv6 formatted addresses yet. When I do, I'll update this. 
sub getHostIPv6()
{
    my $hostName = Net::Domain::hostfqdn();
    my $ip;
    my @rawIpData;
    print "Found $hostName\n";
    if ($^O =~ m/Win/)
    {
        print "Running $^O - Win\n";
        @rawIpData = `nslookup -q=AAAA $hostName`;
    }
    elsif ($^O =~ m/solaris/)
    {
        print "Running $^O - Solaris\n";
        @rawIpData = `ifconfig -a`;
    }
    else
    {
        print "Running $^O - Unix\n";
        # Pull out the matching ip
        @rawIpData = `host -avt AAAA $hostName`;
    }
    foreach my $line (@rawIpData)
    {
    if ($line =~ m/AAAA/ && $line =~ m/IPv6/)
    {
        $line =~ s/^.*IPv6\saddress\s=\s//;
        chomp($line);
        # Return IPv6 IP
        $ip = $line;
    }
    elsif ($line =~ m/inet6/)
    {
        $line =~ s/^\s+inet6\s+//;
        chomp($line);
        # Return IPv6 IP
        $ip = $line;
    }
    }
    if ($ip eq "")
    {
    print "Did not find an IPv6 address on the $^O machine\n";
    exit(1);
    }
        print "Found IP-$ip.\n";
    exit(1);
}

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In reply to Re^2: Pulling IPv6 Address from Hostname by gokuraku
in thread Pulling IPv6 Address from Hostname by gokuraku

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