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From: 026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca (Michael Richards)
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Subject: Ping bug?
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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 23:10:24 -0300 (ADT)
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Hi.

I have an interesting problem with ping. I don't know if it is a bug or
not.

The man page says that the -Q switch will shut it up when it comes to error
messages.

I am writing a package to tell me if the host is up or down.
the script calls:
ping -c1 -Q lib226-1.acadiau.ca
at this time it is dead. so it tries:
ping -c10 -Q lib226-1.acadiau.ca
if nothing comes back, we assume lib226-1 is dead.. right?

Here's what I keep getting back.

ping: sendto: Host is down
ping: wrote lib226-1.acadiau.ca 64 chars, ret=-1

According to the man page, it shouldn't give me any errors. Even funnier, it
seems to behave correctly if I just start off pinging it once. As soon as I
try pinging a second time in a row, it spits out these error messages...

Any ideas?

-Mike