Re: ping: invalid argument

2007-02-07 Thread Brad Brock
--- Jonas Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/02/2007 Max Hyre wrote: > >Dear Debianists: > > > >Between two successive calls to ping, it > crapped out. > > (Tried twice in a row because I had a flaky DSL > connection, > > and wanted to see whether it had decided to join > the party

Re: ping: invalid argument

2007-02-05 Thread Max Hyre
Jonas Meurer wrote: > I guess that the problem is '-n 1'. According to the ping manpage, the > option '-n' takes no argument: AAARRRrrrghh! I should have used `-c 1'. I'm so used to using another implementation that uses -n for the number of pings that I forgot to check what I was doing. That

Re: ping: invalid argument

2007-02-05 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 05/02/2007 Max Hyre wrote: >Dear Debianists: > >Between two successive calls to ping, it crapped out. > (Tried twice in a row because I had a flaky DSL connection, > and wanted to see whether it had decided to join the party.) > > == > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# i

ping: invalid argument

2007-02-05 Thread Max Hyre
{sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(1025), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) ====== o Asking Google about `"0.0.0.1" "ping: invalid argument"' returns precisely zip. o It returns some stuff from a search