Hi again, > 2017-05-17 15:56 GMT+02:00 Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>: >>> Please consider the following example: >>> >>> $ tail -n1 /etc/hosts | xxd >>> 00000000: 3132 372e 302e 302e 3309 1b47 513b 205a 127.0.0.3..GQ; Z >>> 00000010: 5a5a 0a ZZ. >>> $ ping ZZZ >>> PING ; (127.0.0.3) 56(84) bytes of data. >>> ^[G0 >>> 64 bytes from ; (127.0.0.3): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.039 ms >>> ^[G0 >>> 64 bytes from ; (127.0.0.3): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.032 ms >>> ^[G0 >>> ^C >>> --- ; ping statistics --- >>> 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1014ms >>> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.032/0.035/0.039/0.006 ms >>> ^[G0 >>> $ 0 >>> bash: 0: command not found >> >> what version of ping are you using? I was unable to replicate this with >> either the debian iputils-ping package version 3:20161105-1, or with >> debian inetutils-ping package version 2:1.9.4-2+b1. neither of them seem to >> do a getnameinfo() at all if it is initially supplied with an IP >> address. > > Works for me with the following: > > Ubuntu 17.04's iputils-ping 3:20161105-1ubuntu2 > Fedora 25's iputils-20161105-1.fc25.x86_64
I believe you should try with $ ping ZZZ With $ ping 127.0.0.3 it doesn't do reverse lookups at all (as you'd pointed out). -- Robert Święcki _______________________________________________ rxvt-unicode mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schmorp.de/mailman/listinfo/rxvt-unicode
