Re: bad default in ping

Collin Funk <[email protected]> Thu, 08 May 2025 20:12:08 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.inetutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[email protected]> writes:

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

I generally agree. Having both a ping and ping6 commands seems fairly
common.

I wouldn't mind having 'ping' support both IPv4 and IPv6 with arguments
to chose though. I think that was even but in the TODO file long ago.
But I am in no rush to do so.

Collin