Bug 1221496

Summary:	'fping' should support IPv6 transparently
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmavrogi>
Component:	fping	Assignee:	Charles R. Anderson <cra>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	cra
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Comment 1 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 2015-05-14 08:02:08 UTC

Description of problem:

The current system of using different software (fping vs fping6) for different versions of the IP stack is broken.  As the IPv6 transition moves ahead its unreasonable to expect the user to do the IP address parsing and decide to use the appropriate tool for the address. 

fping should work like traceroute, ssh or all other applications supporting both protocol versions by default.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. fping 2a03:2880:20:4f06:face:b00c:0:1

Actual results:
2a03:2880:20:4f06:face:b00c:0:1 address not found
 
Expected results:
2a03:2880:20:4f06:face:b00c:0:1 is alive

Comment 2 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 14:09:34 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora23

Comment 3 Charles R. Anderson 2015-07-29 05:09:08 UTC

Filed upstream:

https://github.com/schweikert/fping/issues/80

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2016-11-24 11:47:20 UTC

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Comment 5 Charles R. Anderson 2017-02-01 00:22:12 UTC

From the upstream bug report:

schweikert: Implemented in develop branch and to be released with fping 3.16 (see also: fping-3.16-rc2)

Comment 6 Charles R. Anderson 2017-05-04 13:33:44 UTC

Built for rawhide:

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=19396770