** Description changed:

  The latest version of iputils have the option of using SOCK_DGRAM
  packets instead of SOCK_RAW, provided that the net.ipv4.ping_group_range
  sysctl is set to a different value.  This helps a lot with security in
  -not just- Linux containers by dropping support for the NET_RAW
  capability.
  
  Also, the ubuntu-minimal packages should not include this package as a
  hard dependency in case I want to uninstall iputils-ping to substitute
  it for another package like oping which just works if I turn off the
  setuid bit.
+ 
+ This would help a lot with secure Linux containers with no NET_RAW
+ capabilities.

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Title:
  Upgrade ping to latest version that doesn't require SUID or NET_RAW
  capability

Status in iputils package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The latest version of iputils have the option of using SOCK_DGRAM
  packets instead of SOCK_RAW, provided that the
  net.ipv4.ping_group_range sysctl is set to a different value.  This
  helps a lot with security in -not just- Linux containers by dropping
  support for the NET_RAW capability.

  Also, the ubuntu-minimal packages should not include this package as a
  hard dependency in case I want to uninstall iputils-ping to substitute
  it for another package like oping which just works if I turn off the
  setuid bit.

  This would help a lot with secure Linux containers with no NET_RAW
  capabilities.

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