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  1. ZABBIX BUGS AND ISSUES
  2. ZBX-7210

Pinging IPv4 and v6 addresses can result in some hosts not being processed

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      Mixing IPv4 and v6 for pinging is creating problems and these problems are also different depending on your version of fping.

      I have created 4 different example files with different address types and order and went across them with fping and fping6:

      for f in pure-ipv4 pure-ipv6 mixed-ipv4-first mixed-ipv6-first; do
      for fp in fping fping6; do
      echo "${fp}" "${f}";
      "${fp}" -f "${f}";
      echo $?;echo "";
      done;
      done

      The most noteworthy discovery is that the fping and fping6 commands in version 2 simply bail out of the file as soon as they encounter an address from a family they don't understand. Consequent hosts are not pinged at all; there are no results. Version 3 binaries on the other hand throw errors on unknown family's addresses but continue to go through the file.

        1. fping-2.4.txt
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            volter Volker Fröhlich
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