How to differentiate between NetBIOS name and IPV6?   

Hi,
    I am facing problem to differentiate between NetBIOS name and IPV6
address,both can be given with '-' format.This make me difficult to
write code to identify IPV6 address from NetBIOS name.Please give me
some suggestion :-)

date: Wed, 14 May 2008 06:36:56 -0700 (PDT)   author:   unknown

Re: How to differentiate between NetBIOS name and IPV6?   

Le mercredi 14 mai 2008 16:36, arunsreenivas@gmail.com a écrit :

>     I am facing problem to differentiate between NetBIOS name and IPV6
> address,both can be given with '-' format.

IPv6 addresses cannot contain dashes, only hexadecimal digits, colons (and
the percent sign for link-local address scoping).

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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date: Sun, 18 May 2008 19:13:37 +0300   author:   Remi Denis-Courmont