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Re: [bug-inetutils] Re: ping: Discard single octets as host name.
From: |
Sergey Poznyakoff |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-inetutils] Re: ping: Discard single octets as host name. |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:49:51 +0200 |
Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> This is what OpenBSD 4.6 and FreeBSD 8.0 do this very day,
> which still is a daft way to act.
There is nothing daft in this. It is a useful feature that quite often
simplifies the use of ping from other programs or scripts:
ping 3582074665
PING 3582074665 (213.130.31.41) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 213.130.31.41: icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=4.39 ms
Regards,
Sergey