[arch-general] iptutils 20150815.1b5d03a-2 and ipv4-only system

[Leonid Isaev]

[replying to both emails]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 12:11:29PM +0200, Joakim Hernberg wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:14:31 -0600
> Leonid Isaev <leonid.isaev at jila.colorado.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I tried playing with cmdline options, without any success. ping from
> > [core]/iputils 20140519.fad11dc-1 does work. Is this a bug or a
> > feature, and does anyone know how to make ping work again?
> 
> You could create an ip6table firewall that just drops most
> things and leave ipv6 enabled in the kernel.

All networks on which I have Arch machines are IPv4-only. So I don't need
IPv6...

> 
> -- 
> 
>    Joakim

On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 01:49:34PM +0200, Jens Adam wrote:
> Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:14:31 -0600
> Leonid Isaev <leonid.isaev at jila.colorado.edu>:
> 
> > Is this a bug or a feature, and does anyone know how to make ping work
> > again?
> 
> Have you tried 'ping -4'?
> Yes, it's undocumented.

Yep :(
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# ping -4 google.com
ping: socket: Operation not permitted (raw socket required by specified options).
# ping -N ipv4 google.com
ping: socket: Operation not permitted (raw socket required by specified options).
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Thanks,
-- 
Leonid Isaev
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