[ih] Memories of Flag Day?

[Jaap Akkerhuis]

 Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history writes:

 > 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?

Apparently someone merged ping & ping6 into one binary:

2006462 -r-sr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  63720 Jun 23 10:38 /sbin/ping
2006462 -r-sr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  63720 Jun 23 10:38 /sbin/ping6

	jaap