Re: ping6

On 2011-07-19 04:06, Jérôme Poulin wrote:

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:23 PM,[off-list ref]  wrote:

quoted

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