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Date:	Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:23:33 -0600
From:	eric@...tus.bz
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: ping6

Hi,
I've found what I think is a bug in the ping6 tool. Without the -n option,
it puts the hostname inside the parenthesis instead of the resolved ip
address as demonstrated below:

ericat@...ra:~/iputils-s20101006$ ping6 ipv6.he.net
PING ipv6.he.net(ipv6.he.net) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ipv6.he.net: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=186 ms

I expect output like this:

ericat@...ra:~/iputils-s20101006$ sudo ./ping6 ipv6.he.net
Password:
PING ipv6.he.net(2001:470:0:64::2) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from ipv6.he.net: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=187 ms

Here's a very simple patch to ping6.c for proper behaviour:

ericat@...ra:~/iputils-s20101006$ diff ping6.c.orig ping6.c
979c979
<       printf("PING %s(%s) ", hostname, pr_addr(&whereto.sin6_addr));
---
>       printf("PING %s(%s) ", hostname, pr_addr_n(&whereto.sin6_addr));

Cheers,
Eric Atkin


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