Re: [bug-inetutils] ping: -c 0 vs. -c 3 as default..

[Guillem Jover]

Hi,

On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 07:33:42 -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Does anyone rember why we changed the default behaviour for ping from
> -c3 to -c0?
> 
> I'd like tto write a very short rationale for it.. Cause I always
> forget why we changed it..

Your initial reasons (to change from -c0 to -c4) can be found in this
thread:

  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2006-11/msg00010.html>

But later on you asked why this changed had been done and stated you hated
it:

  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-inetutils/2008-06/msg00003.html>

Then Sergey reverted it (git commit aaa12c18) to match traditional
implementations. Latest netkit's (0.17) ping does not stop after 4
pings, neither does iputils' ping.

I've also got a bug report in Debian recently about this:

  <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524011>


And I don't think I've ever liked the change, and I'm happy it has
been reverted now, so I think I'll be packaging a git snapshot for
Debian pretty soon.

regards,
guillem