Couldn't the upstream fix be to time out the DNS resolution? If you don't have an answer in X seconds/milliseconds, never mind and carry on. It's just ping, after all, and it's a good idea to make low level diagnosis independent of higher level functionality, as noted in the Debian bug report.
Caching hostnames in ping is a possible strategy, but that's what the local resolver is for. IMHO, that's not something ping should bother doing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1405232 Title: ping reports wrong IP responding under certain conditions To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iputils/+bug/1405232/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
