On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:06:31AM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 18:51:50 +0200
>
> IPv6 aware applications in base system such as telnet, ssh... do
> round-robbin so that it can be fall back to use IPv4 if IPv6
> connection is fail.
Errr.. oops. I must have been on something.
Of course base system telnet does round-robin. Just noticed it
yesterday, when I tried telnet'ting to port 25 of a multi-addressed
MX by name, and it tried all addresses in turn.
So half the original question is answered :)
I do not really think such behavior belongs in 'ping' though,
especially seeing as ping is usually used as a diagnostics tool.
If a host does not respond, this might be temporary, or due to
timeouts, or due to some routing/interface problem.. most of the
time, I do want to see how it does as time goes by :)
G'luck,
Peter
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