From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 27 08:39:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA26126 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:39:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from opus.cts.cwu.edu (opus.cts.cwu.edu [198.104.92.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA26116; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:39:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu) Received: from localhost (skynyrd@localhost) by opus.cts.cwu.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA14089; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:38:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Timmons To: Matt Dillon cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.8 ping.c In-Reply-To: <19980827015318.A2922@nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I agree that unlimited iterations are undesirable in some environments as a default; however, I feel that the way to address that is via login.conf. Hard coding n iterations pretty much emasculates ping. I feel that the recent controversial changes should be backed out until some sort of consensus can be achieved. -Chris On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > Seems most of us are in agreement on this one. > So Matt, is this going to be backed out?? > > I'd also like to see continuious pings the default again. Why do we have > to be this non-standard for *BSD machines? When I run ping, I often > don't know how many I want to send out. I ^C when I've seen enought. I > understand your needs as an ISP, but I'm not sure these changes are best > for the general FreeBSD public. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) >