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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



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