On 04/27/2011 11:57 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Chuck Anderson wrote:

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 02:59:09AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
because the same hostname can have A and AAA records
and the people commonly use ping (sysadmins) must be
able to decide what they will test?
Use -4 -or -6 parameters if you care to force one vs. the other.
+1

It's really annoying, because "ping" takes a long time to fail
when you try it on an AAAA name.

+1+1

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