nobody wrote... > The "ping =" option in watchdog.conf does not support an IPv6 address. > > This means that IPv6-only systems cannot use the ping testing functionality > of Watchdog. > > Setting "ping=" to an IPv6 literal address fails with: > > Starting watchdog daemon...watchdog: unknown host fe80::230:18ff:fec0:5339 > failed! > > The same happens if the setting is configured as a hostname which has only an > AAAA record.
From Debian stretch only ping (at least ping provided by iputils-ping)
supports IPv6 addresses and tries AAAA for hostnames first. Therefore,
this should no longer be an issue.
Mind to check?
Christoph (not the watchdog maintainer, just noticed this issue)
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