From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 9:19:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (pool147-tch-1.Sofia.0rbitel.net [212.95.170.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BCDEB37B491 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:18:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 36353 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Feb 2001 17:17:10 -0000 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:17:10 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Hajimu UMEMOTO Cc: fiterman@torrentnet.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple IP addresses in /etc/hosts Message-ID: <20010208191710.C35971@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Hajimu UMEMOTO , fiterman@torrentnet.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <3A82CC57.3D1F5AB4@torrentnet.com> <20010208185150.B35971@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <20010209.020631.55492622.ume@mahoroba.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010209.020631.55492622.ume@mahoroba.org>; from ume@mahoroba.org on Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:06:31AM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:06:31AM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 18:51:50 +0200 > > IPv6 aware applications in base system such as telnet, ssh... do > round-robbin so that it can be fall back to use IPv4 if IPv6 > connection is fail. Errr.. oops. I must have been on something. Of course base system telnet does round-robin. Just noticed it yesterday, when I tried telnet'ting to port 25 of a multi-addressed MX by name, and it tried all addresses in turn. So half the original question is answered :) I do not really think such behavior belongs in 'ping' though, especially seeing as ping is usually used as a diagnostics tool. If a host does not respond, this might be temporary, or due to timeouts, or due to some routing/interface problem.. most of the time, I do want to see how it does as time goes by :) G'luck, Peter -- This would easier understand fewer had omitted. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message