Linux did this quite some time ago. I guess BSD is just now catching up. Owen
> On Jul 2, 2021, at 7:30 AM, Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 7/2/21 16:22, Niels Bakker wrote: > >> >> Yes, this broke some of my home network monitoring. Sadly there is no >> 'ping4' in the system, you have to add -4 to the commandline to return to >> the common BSD behaviour. > > This is a good point, as it's the same reason I discovered this today. A > transient IPv6 issue on a specific host broke NTP, and when I tried to ping > the NTP time servers during troubleshooting, it hang for a while because IPv6 > was broken. > > Mark.

