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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun,  3 Jan 2016 12:31:05 -0800
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Subject: Re: [9fans] bug or feature ? --- ip/ping -6
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> 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