From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or feature ? --- ip/ping -6
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 13:47:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <79408afbc4f550166363569b94684d7e@mule> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFSF3XPiVbtCf9yDsA19Ub9cwp6y-qtP7F44wdhPmyWzYyABxg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun Jan 3 13:42:21 PST 2016, 23hiro@gmail.com wrote:
> your ipv4 "embedding" doesn't need to be part of the ping tool. it's
> not commonly used anyway.
i think the attribution here is false. i read the man page for that information.
in any event, ping as patched is wrong. addresses like icmpv6!address must
be accepted. this may make the -4 flag silly in it's current form.
> allowing the ping tool to do dns lookups on the other hand are a
> common convenience.
but as such, one loses precision. for example if i use a name, i can't
easily force the name lookup to find the ip i'm thinking of.
> perhaps i misunderstand. i'm not against adding zeros at the front.
see /sys/src/libip/ipaux.c^/uchar v4prefix
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-03 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-28 9:04 arisawa
2015-12-29 0:10 ` Anthony Martin
2015-12-30 12:48 ` arisawa
2015-12-30 13:21 ` Charles Forsyth
2015-12-30 15:05 ` Steve Simon
2015-12-30 15:26 ` Kurt H Maier
2015-12-30 19:05 ` Steve Simon
2015-12-30 22:43 ` Kenny Lasse Hoff Levinsen
2015-12-30 23:36 ` Steve Simon
2015-12-31 0:16 ` Bakul Shah
2015-12-31 1:36 ` arisawa
2015-12-31 3:44 ` Dave Eckhardt
2016-01-02 1:12 ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-02 1:54 ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-03 19:58 ` hiro
2016-01-03 20:04 ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-03 20:31 ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-03 21:40 ` hiro
2016-01-03 21:43 ` hiro
2016-01-03 21:47 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2016-01-04 1:31 ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-04 10:51 ` Anthony Martin
2016-01-04 13:04 ` erik quanstrom
2016-01-04 13:58 ` erik quanstrom
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