Bug 10436 - Funnies with ping and bogus nameservers at resolv.conf
Summary: Funnies with ping and bogus nameservers at resolv.conf
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: iputils
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Crutcher Dunnavant
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: 10659 11048 11700 16138 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 11313
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Reported: 2000-03-30 11:15 UTC by kauppi
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-03-31 16:32:52 UTC
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Description kauppi 2000-03-30 11:15:37 UTC 
/etc/resolv.conf:
search somedomain.com
nameserver 1.2.3.4 (Some bogus address where bind isn't running)

eth0 is configured as 192.168.0.2/24, default gw 192.168.0.1

ping 192.168.0.1 reports no replies or each reply is delayed by 4 seconds
(first like 2 ms, next 4030, next 8030 etc) even though tcpdump shows
normal operation (echo request and echo reply right after request). ping -n
192.168.0.1 works normally and reports correct times.

Tested on i386 platform, iputils-20000121-2
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2000-03-31 16:32:59 UTC 
This is as documented in the man page.  You've always needed to specify -n for
numeric output, modulo a bug in what the default was that is fixed in this
release.

(But yes, I preferred the old behaviour too.)
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2000-06-14 17:19:31 UTC 
*** Bug 10659 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2000-06-14 17:20:37 UTC 
*** Bug 11048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2000-06-14 17:21:09 UTC 
*** Bug 11700 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2000-08-14 05:11:32 UTC 
*** Bug 16138 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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