Powershell and IPv6

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If you have code like below and you pass IPv6 address for the parameter remoteNode, surprisely it won't work. Then then you go to powershell cmd and try to use new-pssession with ipv6, surprisely it works!

WSManConnectionInfo connInfo = new WSManConnectionInfo(false, remoteNode, 0, null, null, credential);
runspace = RunspaceFactory.CreateRunspace(connInfo);
runspace.Open();

You might wonder why there is such weird and inconsistent behavior. Well, it is just a bug of powershell. The magic is passing "wsman" the highlighted paramter.

The article is based on my dev buddy's investigation. He is famous as yongwei in case you don't know:-)