Re^2: IPV6 ping code not working

Following code with 2.63

IPV4 ping
# perl -MNet::Ping -e 'my $ping = Net::Ping->new(q/icmp/, 10,q//,q//,q
+//,q//,q/ipv4/);print("ping successfull") if $ping->ping(q/Virt-titan
+-17/)'
ping successfull

IPV6 ping
perl -MNet::Ping -e 'my $ping = Net::Ping->new(q/icmpv6/, 10,q//,q//,q
+//,q//,q/ipv6/);print("ping successfull") if $ping->ping(q/Virt-titan
+-17/)'
'
virt-titan-17:~ #
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Re^3: IPV6 ping code not working by hippo (Archbishop) on Nov 30, 2017 at 17:03 UTC
Looks like there is a bug report open for this. Check the latest comment (6th Aug 2017) which also includes a proposed patch that you might like to test.	[reply]
Re^4: IPV6 ping code not working by amanjal (Novice) on Nov 30, 2017 at 17:28 UTC
Thank you, patch seems to be working right now, appreciate your help.	[reply]
Re^3: IPV6 ping code not working by stevieb (Canon) on Nov 30, 2017 at 16:37 UTC
Does the hostname `virt-titan-17` actually resolve to a v6 address? In other words, can you successfully `ping6 virt-titan-17` successfully?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: IPV6 ping code not working by amanjal (Novice) on Nov 30, 2017 at 16:52 UTC
yes it does. `virt-titan-29:~ # ping6 Virt-titan-17 PING Virt-titan-17(virt-titan-17) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from virt-titan-17: icmp_seq=1 ttl=0 time=0.217 ms 64 bytes from virt-titan-17: icmp_seq=2 ttl=0 time=0.205 ms 64 bytes from virt-titan-17: icmp_seq=3 ttl=0 time=0.221 ms 64 bytes from virt-titan-17: icmp_seq=4 ttl=0 time=0.234 ms 64 bytes from virt-titan-17: icmp_seq=5 ttl=0 time=0.214 ms` [download]	[reply] [d/l]