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

[Hisham Kotry]

--- Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Or use a default value of 3seconds, rfc2988 (along-side other more
advanced algorithms) uses it as an initial value for tcp's rto, wich is
a pretty good estimation on the rtt's upper-bound.

Cheers,
kotry

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