ipv6 tools + ipv4 tools fusion.

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Chuck Anderson wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 02:59:09AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> because the same hostname can have A and AAA records
>> and the people commonly use ping (sysadmins) must be
>> able to decide what they will test?
>
> Use -4 -or -6 parameters if you care to force one vs. the other.

+1

It's really annoying, because "ping" takes a long time to fail
when you try it on an AAAA name.