Paste an IPv6 address to expand it to full form or compress it to shorthand — with a reference cheat sheet for prefixes, types, and notation.
IPv6 addresses can be written long (every group padded to four hex digits) or short (leading zeros dropped, one run of zero groups replaced by ::). Tools and configs sometimes need one form or the other — this converts both ways and validates the address.
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