Re: [bug-inetutils] ping -c 1 down.site.com never returns

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

> ping -c 1 www.ibm.com never returns.  The site drops
> icmp packets.
[...]
> The actual behaviour is for ping to continue running until
> it receives a packet or is interrupted.
[...]
> Can anyone think of an elegant solution?  Or is this the
> desired behaviour?

Actually, that's the way most ping implementations behave. The only
possible solution will be to enforce some timeout value via the
command line.

Regards,
Sergey