On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 23:57 -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Chuck Anderson wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 02:59:09AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> because the same hostname can have A and AAA records > >> and the people commonly use ping (sysadmins) must be > >> able to decide what they will test? > > > > Use -4 -or -6 parameters if you care to force one vs. the other. > > +1 > > It's really annoying, because "ping" takes a long time to fail > when you try it on an AAAA name.
Does it? [dwmw2@macbook ~]$ time ping casper.ipv6.infradead.org ping: unknown host casper.ipv6.infradead.org real 0m0.080s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.004s The Solaris 'ping' works the way that Itamar suggests, FWIW. I think it's a sane plan. Everything should just obey RFC3484 (and perhaps have -4 and -6 overrides if you really need them for specific tests). -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre david.woodho...@intel.com Intel Corporation -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
