Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:56:45AM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
wrote:
> While working for an updated ipcalc to support ipv6 transparently, I
> figured we have more tools which are not IPv6-ready and awkwardly
> provide an additional tool with a -6 suffix, supposedly for separate
> IPv6 support. That looks like a relic of the past, we still drag. IPv6
> support should be transparent in programs (fortunately we don't have
> ssh6). Any objection to fill bugs to merge the following tools with
> their ipv4 equivalent?
>
> ping6, geoiplookup6, tracepath6, traceroute6
Note, that traceroute already supports IPv6 transparently. The `-6'
suffix/option is needed for cases when domain names are resolved to both
IPv4 and IPv6 variants (as well as for compatibility with older versions
etc.)
Regards,
Dmitry Butskoy