From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or feature ? --- ip/ping -6
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 12:31:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a98d5b0dd60db3af3f815f68bbc9e3a2@mule> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16d44a618c1c80e6486ead964a11822a@mule>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-03 20:31 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 [this message]
2016-01-03 21:40 ` hiro
2016-01-03 21:43 ` hiro
2016-01-03 21:47 ` erik quanstrom
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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