[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#924296: check_ping: check_ping -4 does an IPv6 check

[Guillaume Subiron]

Package: nagios-plugins
Version: 2.2-3

If the remote host has an IPv6 address configured, the check_ping
plugin seems to do an ICMPv6 check, even when we use -4 to force IPv4.

You can reproduce by doing a check_ping -4

$ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping -4 -H www.sysnove.net -w 1000,100% -c 2000,100% -p 1
PING OK -  Paquets perdus = 0%, RTA = 1.36 ms|rta=1.364000ms;1000.000000;2000.000000;0.000000 pl=0%;100;100;0

while monitoring the network with tcpdump.

$ sudo tcpdump -i any dst 2001:bc8:3977:802::1 and icmp6
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on any, link-type LINUX_SLL (Linux cooked), capture size 262144 bytes
09:58:34.772859 IP6 infra-mon04.sysnove.net > sysnove-www01.sysnove.net: ICMP6, echo request, seq 1, length 64


I'm using an up to date Debian 9.6 with nagios-plugins 2.2-3.
This problem is not present on 8.11 with nagios-plugins 2.1.1-1.


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