bad default in ping
Anna Aurora Kitsüne <[email protected]> Thu, 08 May 2025 18:20:20 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.inetutils.bugs |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
inetutils' ping program uses ipv4 for pinging by default even when an ipv6 address exists for the host. i consider this a bug because ipv4 is the legacy IP protocol so it should not be the default. ipv6 should be used over ipv4 whenever possible.