Hey I was wondering about the check_ping from the newest stable plugins.

[Holger Weiß]

JFTR (we clarified this on IRC):

* Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer at ngtech.co.il> [2013-08-09 17:23]:
> which is a bit weird why is it using ping6 for a simple ping by default?
> Hos is the check_ping recognises that there is a need for ping6 ??
> the host dosn't even has ipv6 connectivity..

There's no sensible way to detect the availability of IPv6.  The plugin
could auto-fallback to IPv4 if IPv6 fails, but so far users are expected
to simply add the "-4" flag in IPv4-only environments (or to use
check_icmp).

Holger

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