Bug#2574: ping - strange behavior?

[Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@Q.cistron.nl>]

You (Guy Maor) wrote:
> > Is this the right behavior, or should ping report an error, as fping do
> > # fping 134.106.121.
> > 134.106.121. error while sending ping: Permission denied
>
> This is odd.  Perhaps fping is rolling its own inet_aton(), which is
> somehow printing this error.

Probably fping doesn't set the SO_BROADCAST socket option.

Mike.
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