Bug 4082 - netkit-base-0.10-31, ping -c no longer works properly
Summary: netkit-base-0.10-31, ping -c no longer works properly
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 3959
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: netkit-base
Version: 6.0
Hardware: alpha
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 4149 4169 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-07-17 00:07 UTC by Larry Fahnoe
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 1999-07-23 08:20:12 UTC
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Description Larry Fahnoe 1999-07-17 00:07:11 UTC
On the alpha, netkit-base-0.10-29 had the unaligned trap
bug, but after installing netkit-base-0.10-31 (which fixed
the unaligned trap) ping -c does not work properly.

Specifically, "ping -c x unreachable-host" causes ping to
start a stream of pings (as seen by tcpdump) that does not
stop after "x" pings.  Pinging a host that is reachable with
the -c option works properly.

In this case, I use ping -c to bring up a demand ppp link so
I have reverted to the 0.10-29 kit shipped with 6.0 Alpha.

--Larry

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-07-22 15:33:59 UTC
I was able to replicate this problem on an alpha and intel machine in
our test lab with this update. I tried to ping www.redhat.com and
ftp.redhat.com which are set up to reject ping requests so therefore I
get the unreachable errors. It seems the -c <some num> option is
ignored when used and a host is unreachable. This is being assigned to
a developer for further review.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 1999-07-23 08:09:59 UTC
*** Bug 4169 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Here is the transcript of my session notice that I installed
the original rpm ran my test then ran the new rpm and it
failed!

Transcript follows:

[root@jab-linux RPMS]# rpm -U --oldpackage
netkit-base-0.10-29.i386.rpm
[root@jab-linux RPMS]# ls -l /bin/ping
-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        14804 Apr  7 17:21
/bin/ping
[root@jab-linux RPMS]# ping -c 1 130.110.238.4
PING 130.110.238.4 (130.110.238.4): 56 data bytes

--- 130.110.238.4 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
[root@jab-linux RPMS]# cd /jbrown/linux/errata
[root@jab-linux errata]# rpm -U netkit-base-0.10-31.i386.rpm
[root@jab-linux errata]# ls -l /biin/ping
ls: /biin/ping: No such file or directory
[root@jab-linux errata]# ls -l /bin/ping
-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     root        17652 Jul  6 09:33
/bin/ping
[root@jab-linux errata]# ping -c 1 130.110.238.4
PING 130.110.238.4 (130.110.238.4) from 130.110.238.80 : 56
data bytes
From jab-linux.isd.ustra.abb.com (130.110.238.80):
Destination Host Unreachable
From jab-linux.isd.ustra.abb.com (130.110.238.80):
Destination Host Unreachable

--- 130.110.238.4 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, +2 errors, 100%
packet loss
[root@jab-linux errata]#

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 1999-07-23 08:11:59 UTC
*** Bug 4149 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***



I beleive there is a problem with
netkit-base-0.10-31.is86.rpm I have a
script that pings hosts and ever since I applied the errata
ping now
fails with this error message :

jab-linux.isd.ustra.abb.com:/jbrown/linux/errata$ ping
130.110.238.4
PING 130.110.238.4 (130.110.238.4) from 130.110.238.80 : 56
data bytes
>From jab-linux.isd.ustra.abb.com (130.110.238.80):
Destination Host
Unreachable
>From jab-linux.isd.ustra.abb.com (130.110.238.80):
Destination Host
Unreachable
>From jab-linux.isd.ustra.abb.com (130.110.238.80):
Destination Host
Unreachable

There is no host the at that address and I should not be
getting this
error. I have an original 6.0 install which has a different
date and
size from the original. The dates on the original install
is:

14804 Apr 7 ping

and the new one is:

17652 Jul 6 ping

 This effectivly breaks ping. Which is vital to my script.
Meanwhile I
have moved the older version onto this computer and I have
changed my
script to refernece the old version of ping. If someone
could please
look into why this is happening. Oh the platform is Intel.

                                        Thanks
                                            Jim Brown




------- Additional Comments From dkl  07/22/99 11:10 -------
I could not get this update to fail on a test lab machine running
standard 6.0 with updates.

Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 1999-07-23 08:20:59 UTC
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3959 ***


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