> i spent some time thinking about this problem. > > the purpose of -6 is to force icmpv6. (one can use a v4 address > with icmpv6, that works due to ipv4 embedding.) this is not the same as > controlling name lookup. since there are better more flexible tools > for doing that by hand. the result can be fead to ip/ping. > > it's kind of an ugly problem.
and it turns out that the patch as given breaks things like ip/ping /net.alt/icmpv6!hostname - erik
