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Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6
From: Patrick Cole <z () amused net>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2021 00:12:30 +1000
Mark, iputils-ping on linux seems to behave the same for quite some time... [z@tyl][~] % host ns0 ns0.spirit.net.au has address 27.113.240.197 ns0.spirit.net.au has IPv6 address 2403:3600:8002::100 [z@tyl][~] % ping ns0 PING ns0(2403:3600:8002::100 (2403:3600:8002::100)) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 2403:3600:8002::100 (2403:3600:8002::100): icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=0.344 ms 64 bytes from 2403:3600:8002::100 (2403:3600:8002::100): icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=0.447 ms -PC Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 04:00:16PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
Hi all. I just noticed (although it appears to have come in version 13.0) that FreeBSD's "ping" app now defaults to IPv6, i.e., no need for ping6: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ping&sektion=8&format=html Does anyone know whether other *nix systems are doing this now? My Mac (Catalina) still requires ping6, and I don't have any recent Linux systems handy. #ThisIsGood Mark.
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Current thread:
- FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6 Mark Tinka (Jul 02)
- Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6 Patrick Cole (Jul 02)
- Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6 Mark Tinka (Jul 02)
- Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6 Niels Bakker (Jul 02)
- Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6 Mark Tinka (Jul 02)
- Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6 Owen DeLong via NANOG (Jul 03)
- Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6 Mark Tinka (Jul 04)
- Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6 Bjørn Mork (Jul 04)
- Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6 Mark Tinka (Jul 04)
- Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6 Justin Streiner (Jul 04)
- Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6 Mark Tinka (Jul 04)
- Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6 John Levine (Jul 04)
- Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6 Mark Tinka (Jul 02)
- Re: FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6 Patrick Cole (Jul 02)