FreeBSD's ping Integrates IPv6

Fri Jul 2 14:12:30 UTC 2021

Mark, 

iputils-ping on linux seems to behave the same for quite some time...

[z at tyl][~] % host ns0 
ns0.spirit.net.au has address 27.113.240.197
ns0.spirit.net.au has IPv6 address 2403:3600:8002::100

[z at tyl][~] % ping ns0  
PING ns0(2403:3600:8002::100 (2403:3600:8002::100)) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2403:3600:8002::100 (2403:3600:8002::100): icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=0.344 ms
64 bytes from 2403:3600:8002::100 (2403:3600:8002::100): icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=0.447 ms

-PC

Fri, Jul 02, 2021 at 04:00:16PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:

>    Hi all.
> 
>    I just noticed (although it appears to have come in version 13.0) that
>    FreeBSD's "ping" app now defaults to IPv6, i.e., no need for ping6:
> 
>        https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ping&sektion=8&format=html
> 
>    Does anyone know whether other *nix systems are doing this now?
> 
>    My Mac (Catalina) still requires ping6, and I don't have any recent Linux
>    systems handy.
> 
>    #ThisIsGood
> 
>    Mark.

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