diff --git a/ethereum/p2p/src/main/java/tech/pegasys/pantheon/ethereum/p2p/peers/DefaultPeer.java b/ethereum/p2p/src/main/java/tech/pegasys/pantheon/ethereum/p2p/peers/DefaultPeer.java
index d329c41d0c..b1c94d19aa 100644
--- a/ethereum/p2p/src/main/java/tech/pegasys/pantheon/ethereum/p2p/peers/DefaultPeer.java
+++ b/ethereum/p2p/src/main/java/tech/pegasys/pantheon/ethereum/p2p/peers/DefaultPeer.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
+import com.google.common.net.InetAddresses;
 import com.google.common.primitives.Ints;
 
 /** The default, basic representation of an Ethereum {@link Peer}. */
@@ -67,6 +68,12 @@ public static DefaultPeer fromURI(final URI uri) {
     // Process the peer's public key, in the host portion of the URI.
     final BytesValue id = BytesValue.fromHexString(uri.getUserInfo());
 
+    // Process the host.  If we have an IPv6 address in URL form translate to an address only form.
+    String host = uri.getHost();
+    if (!InetAddresses.isInetAddress(host) && InetAddresses.isUriInetAddress(host)) {
+      host = InetAddresses.toAddrString(InetAddresses.forUriString(host));
+    }
+
     // Process the ports; falling back to the default port in both TCP and UDP.
     int tcpPort = DEFAULT_PORT;
     int udpPort = DEFAULT_PORT;
@@ -80,7 +87,7 @@ public static DefaultPeer fromURI(final URI uri) {
       udpPort = extractUdpPortFromQuery(uri.getQuery()).orElse(tcpPort);
     }
 
-    final Endpoint endpoint = new Endpoint(uri.getHost(), udpPort, OptionalInt.of(tcpPort));
+    final Endpoint endpoint = new Endpoint(host, udpPort, OptionalInt.of(tcpPort));
     return new DefaultPeer(id, endpoint);
   }
 
diff --git a/ethereum/p2p/src/test/java/tech/pegasys/pantheon/ethereum/p2p/peers/PeerTest.java b/ethereum/p2p/src/test/java/tech/pegasys/pantheon/ethereum/p2p/peers/PeerTest.java
index 6bfe35629d..f7d2d00136 100644
--- a/ethereum/p2p/src/test/java/tech/pegasys/pantheon/ethereum/p2p/peers/PeerTest.java
+++ b/ethereum/p2p/src/test/java/tech/pegasys/pantheon/ethereum/p2p/peers/PeerTest.java
@@ -132,6 +132,22 @@ public void createFromURI() {
     assertEquals(30403, peer.getEndpoint().getTcpPort().getAsInt());
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void createFromIpv6URI() {
+    final Peer peer =
+        DefaultPeer.fromURI(
+            "enode://c7849b663d12a2b5bf05b1ebf5810364f4870d5f1053fbd7500d38bc54c705b453d7511ca8a4a86003d34d4c8ee0bbfcd387aa724f5b240b3ab4bbb994a1e09b@[2001:0DB8:85A3:0000::8A2E:370:7334]:30403");
+    assertEquals(
+        fromHexString(
+            "c7849b663d12a2b5bf05b1ebf5810364f4870d5f1053fbd7500d38bc54c705b453d7511ca8a4a86003d34d4c8ee0bbfcd387aa724f5b240b3ab4bbb994a1e09b"),
+        peer.getId());
+    // We expect bracket unwrapping, zero group removal via double colon, and leading zeros
+    // trimmed, and lowercase hex digits.
+    assertEquals("2001:db8:85a3::8a2e:370:7334", peer.getEndpoint().getHost());
+    assertEquals(30403, peer.getEndpoint().getUdpPort());
+    assertEquals(30403, peer.getEndpoint().getTcpPort().getAsInt());
+  }
+
   @Test(expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
   public void createFromURIFailsForWrongScheme() {
     DefaultPeer.fromURI("http://user@foo:80");