Fedora EPEL 7 Update: fping-3.10-4.el7

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2015-7421
2015-09-09 19:21:17.949534
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Name        : fping
Product     : Fedora EPEL 7
Version     : 3.10
Release     : 4.el7
URL         : http://www.fping.org/
Summary     : Scriptable, parallelized ping-like utility
Description :
fping is a ping-like program which can determine the accessibility of
multiple hosts using ICMP echo requests. fping is designed for parallelized
monitoring of large numbers of systems, and is developed with ease of
use in scripting in mind.

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Update Information:

2014-05-03  David Schweikert  <david at schweikert.ch>    * Version 3.10    * Fix
confusing error message with -g and IPv6 addresses (#58, reported by Axel
Beckert)    * Allow option '-f' also for non-root (since setuid privileges are
dropped)    * Do not retry twice DNS lookup on DNS lookup problem    * Remove
support for NIS groups    * Better document -B backoff-factor and when it can be
used (#33, Oleksiy Zagorskyi)    * More tests added    2014-03-08  David
Schweikert  <david at schweikert.ch>    * Version 3.9    * Fix random output on
socket error (reported by Aleksandrs Saveljevs, #56)    * Support ppc64le
architecture by including alpha libtool version      (reported by Amit Kumar
Gupta and Aravinda B Thunug)    * Fix compilation problem on FreeBSD (#57)    *
Initial test suite and continous intergration (with travis-ci.org /
coveralls.io)    * Don't output usage information on error    2013-11-08  David
Schweikert  <david at schweikert.ch>    * Version 3.8    * Fix segmentation fault
introduced in version 3.7 with loop mode (reported      by Vlad Glagolev, #55)
2013-11-04  David Schweikert  <david at schweikert.ch>    * Version 3.7    * Allow
running as non-root on Mac OS X by using non-privileged ICMP (#7)    * Remove
unnecessary IPv6 socket options    * Fix again compatibility issue with FreeBSD
(Shawn Chu)    * Fix fping hanging forever on permanent sendto failure (Shawn
Chu)    * Fix duplicate echo reply packets causing early stop in count mode
(reported by Ramon Schwammberger, #53)    2013-10-10  David Schweikert
<david at schweikert.ch>    * Version 3.6    * Fix loop issue after 65536 pings
(reported by Peter Folk and GBert, #12)    * Minimum ping data size is now 0
* Removed setsockopt IPV6_CHECKSUM, which shouldn't be set and breaks
compiling on Solaris (reported by Juergen Arndt)    * Fix wrong min RTT value
with -Q option (reported by Alexander Ivanov, #51)
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update fping' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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