Is there any reason why we use ping from inetutils rather than the version from iputils. I realise that we don't install iputils, but why?
I'm asking this because it would appear that the former won't tolerate the same alias (hostname) being entered in /etc/hosts for both IPv4 and IPv6, but the latter does. I admit that I haven't, at this stage, checked whether it is just the different versions of ping displaying these variations or something else. The iputils version of ping I'm using is on a laptop running Linux Mint, so it could be a different script causing the variation, but I doubt it. Whilst on the subject of hostname: in whch version of LFS was /etc/hostname added and would this have any bearing on the matter as the LFS version I'm looking at is an old 7.1. Richard
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