check_ping and IPv4 / IPv6 address selection (#1397)

[Jens Link]

Holger Weiß <notifications at github.com> writes:

> Does ping www.heise.de from the same host work? Does check_ping -4 -H
> www.heise.de -w '200,20%' -c '500,50%' solve the problem?

Sure ping works.  One has to use ping6 on Linux to ping via ICMPv6. And
check_ping -4 also works as expected.

> Either way, you might want to use check_icmp (which currently doesn't
> support ICMPv6) to work around the issue (and because it's preferable
> for v4 checks anyway).

I know. I also reported that problem. ;-) 

Jens
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