The command "ping -S dotted.quad hostname" fails on dual-stack hosts
with the confusing message "ping: invalid source address: Name does
not resolve" because IPv6 is selected in preference. If the argument
to -S is numeric (likely), select the corresponding address family,
as if -4 or -6 was specified. Add tests that either IPv4 or IPv6 can
be forced via a -S parameter.
Reviewed by: asomers
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35271
MFC after: 1 week
ping uses a two-pass option parser. The first pass determines whether
ipv4 or ipv6 is desired, and the second parses the rest of the options.
But the first pass wrongly detects a '4' or '6' in an option's value as
a request to use ipv6 or ipv6 respectively, for example in an invocation
like "ping -c6 1.2.3.4".
Fix this confusion by including all options in the first round of
parsing, but ignoring those unrelated to ipv4/ipv6 selection.
PR: 258048
Reported by: ghuckriede@blackberry.com
Submitted by: ghuckriede@blackberry.com
MFC after: 2 weeks
Reviewed by: emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32344
When invoked as "ping6", ping will now attempt to use ICMPv6 for hostnames
that resolve both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
Reviewed by: bz, manu
MFC-With: r368045
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27384
There is now a single ping binary, which chooses to use ICMP or ICMPv4
based on the -4 and -6 options, and the format of the address.
Submitted by: Ján Sučan <sucanjan@gmail.com>
Sponsored by: Google LLC (Google Summer of Code 2019)
MFC after: Never
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21377
