Fix command for obtaining VM IP address as seen from Windows host

[davpaez]

Type of issue

Code doesn't work

Feedback

The following article has an error when trying to identify the IP address of the VM as seen from Windows host:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/networking?source=recommendations#identify-ip-address

The appropriate command to show the VM's IP address as seen by the Windows host should be:
wsl -d <DistributionName> hostname -I.

Notice that the correct option is hostname -I instead of hostname -i

Also, the paragraphs below that command also incorrectly reference the use hostname -i and hostname --ip-addresses instead of the correct hostname -I and equivalent hostname --all-ip-addresses

Fortunately, the documentation does NOT repeat the error in the next section called Accessing a WSL 2 distribution from your local area network (LAN). Instead, there is helpful note clarifying exactly the distinction I'm refering to.

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/networking?source=recommendations#default-networking-mode-nat

Content source URL

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/wsl/blob/main/WSL/networking.md

Author

@mattwojo

Document Id

f9e21bfa-6316-7d45-3b34-834a78bcaf0f

Platform Id

f3658d3a-3068-2c5d-3513-2318700a303d

[craigloewen-msft]

Please file this at the github.com/microsoft/wsl repo with logs and we will have the best understanding of what is going on and how we can fix this issue. This repo is just for docs. THank you!

[davpaez]

Hello @craigloewen-msft . Thank you for your response.

This is not an issue about a bug in the software. This issue is meant to fix the docs. I'm simply trying to point out the errors that are present in the referenced article.

Please let me know if I should edit the original issue to clarify that. I left it as a "Code doesn't work" type of issue, because that is what the automated system wrote when it created this issue.

[davpaez]

@craigloewen-msft I just checked the current version of the article and the error I pointed out has been fixed in most places.

There is still one mention of hostname -i in the IPv6 access section that I think should also be corrected to hostname -I

[craigloewen-msft]

Ah my mistake! Reopening this.

It looks like your feedback would be triaged by just making all hostname -i to hostname -I in that doc, is that right?

[Shriya-23]

Hi @craigloewen-msft,

I’ve submitted a PR that fixes the incorrect hostname flags and command references in the networking documentation: #2429

Happy to refine it further if needed!