From: "Krzysztof Olędzki" <ole@ans.pl>
To: "Jérôme Poulin" <jeromepoulin@gmail.com>
Cc: eric@certus.bz, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ping6
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:53:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E258C45.4040408@ans.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALJXSJpJmyLLDEs0aLxQ8-4r+mr6y9m+wuinQsxmn+1FNYUdLQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 2011-07-19 04:06, Jérôme Poulin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:23 PM,<eric@certus.bz> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> I guess this is on purpose as IPv6 has very long IP and hostnames
> should be used when possible, also, it does not show the hostname you
> typed but the resolved RDNS of the IP as in:
>
> jerome@MobileCPU ~ $ ping6 www.google.ca
> PING www.google.ca(iad04s01-in-x63.1e100.net) 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from iad04s01-in-x63.1e100.net: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=57.7 ms
Hello,
Even if so it makes no sense to me. You end up without knowing which
host you are pinging and a typical terminal is wide enough to display
even longest IPv6 addresses.
Best regards,
Krzysztof Olędzki
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2011-07-18 20:23 ping6 eric
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2011-07-19 2:06 ` ping6 Jérôme Poulin
2011-07-19 13:53 ` Krzysztof Olędzki [this message]
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