Re: bad default in ping

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[email protected]> Thu, 08 May 2025 14:20:42 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.inetutils.bugs
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.

ping is for IPv4, ping5 is for IPv6.  There is nothing "legacy" about
IPv4.  Use the right command for the right task.