Re: Discrepancy in ping behavior between Darwin BSD and Linux

Thank you very much. 192.168.255.254 was deliberately picked to be a private-sector address that my router would black-hole, but this example will work with *any* unreachable IP. Here is an example with an unreachable public IP: $ # unreachable public IP correctly times out $ ping -c 1

Re: Discrepancy in ping behavior between Darwin BSD and Linux

Where is 192.168.255.254 routed on Darwin? I.e., what does say: ping -c 1 192.168.255.254 Or traceroute.

Discrepancy in ping behavior between Darwin BSD and Linux

Good afternoon, I would like to report a bug in netutils 2.2 ping utility. Using inetutils 2.2: $ ping --version ping (GNU inetutils) 2.2 Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: