[ih] Memories of Flag Day?

[John Levine]

It appears that Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> said:
>On 12-Aug-23 09:02, Michael Thomas via Internet-history wrote:
>> 
>> On 8/11/23 1:49 PM, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history wrote:
>>> On 12-Aug-23 03:11, Jaap Akkerhuis via Internet-history wrote:
>>>>    > > I just mistyped - I meant to type "ping6", not "ping". So try
>>>> "ping6
>>>>    > > 2001:4860:4860::8888"
>>>>
>>>> On my system (FreeBSD), ping just works, it recognizes the ipv6 syntax.
>>>
>>> Also on reasonably modern Linux, I think, and for many years on Windows.
>>>
>> Does it use happy eyeballs?
>
>Surely ping doesn't use HE?

More or less. If you give it an IP address, it does the appropriate
kind of ping. If you give it a domain name, it looks for AAAA then A
records. You can use -4 or -6 if you want to force it one way or the
other.

R's,
John