Package: iputils-ping Version: 3:20161105-1 Severity: normal Hello,
while researching the culprit for https://bugs.debian.org/895558 I found that check_ping sets LC_ALL=C before executing ping, which then reports failure if the hostname to check is puny encoded: $ LC_ALL=C ping www.xn--kleine-knig-yfb.de ping: www.xn--kleine-knig-yfb.de: Parameter string not correctly encoded It could be argued that LC_ALL=C is a bad choice today, but still I think that ping should work anyhow given that there is no need to handle non-ASCII chars in the above scenario. Best regards Uwe -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable'), (499, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages iputils-ping depends on: ii libc6 2.27-3 ii libcap2 1:2.25-1.2 ii libidn11 1.33-2.2 ii libnettle6 3.4-1 Versions of packages iputils-ping recommends: ii libcap2-bin 1:2.25-1.2 iputils-ping suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
