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From: Richard Foulk <richard@skydive1.com>
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Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 09:10:38 -1000
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Subject: ping returns success on failure
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Ping returns zero (0) after a successful response from a remote host.

It returns one (1) if it's called with a unknown domain name -- a failure.

Unfortunately, it returns zero if the remote host exists but doesn't respond.

This seems like incorrect behavior to me and doesn't agree with ping on Linux.

This assumes ping is being directed not to loop forever (ping host 1 1 1).


Richard

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