Re: ping6

Jérôme Poulin
2011-07-19T02:07:34Z

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