IPv6 and Ping and Traceroute

Ping and Traceroute provide the following support for IPv6:

You can use IPv6 IP addresses, or host names that resolve to IPv6 IP addresses, for destinations. The IP address or host name can include scope information, which directs the Ping and Tracerte commands to use the specific outbound interface identified by the appended scope information. See Support for scope information for guidelines about using this mechanism.
You can use IPv6 IP addresses as the source IP address for the command's outbound packets.
IPv6 IP addresses or interface names can be used as the outbound interface. This is analogous to specifying scope information as part of the destination IP address or host name.
You can specify the new ADDRTYPE/-A command option to indicate whether an IPv4 or IPv6 IP address should be returned from host name resolution.
IPv4-mapped IPv6 IP addresses are not supported for any option value.