Issues

• ping: Confusing error messages / help output if multiple hosts are passed

  iputils/iputils#626 · Filter by author olifre opened on Aug 14, 2026
  5

• ping: setsockopt(record route) fails with EPERM due to missing capabilities

  reproducer
  iputils/iputils#624 · Filter by author xietangxin opened on Jul 15, 2026 · Next release
  9

• ping: RTT includes the time spent on ARP resolution

  reproducer
  iputils/iputils#623 · Filter by author GD1200 opened on Jul 1, 2026
  2

• ping4_parse_reply: olen = cmsgh->cmsg_len should subtract CMSG_LEN(0) (SOCK_DGRAM IP_RETOPTS path)

  iputils/iputils#619 · Filter by author MuhammedHussein17 opened on May 15, 2026

• ping -m doesn't work without cap_net_admin (only with cap_net_raw) on Linux >=5.17

  iputils/iputils#617 · Filter by author Noisytoot opened on Mar 29, 2026

• ping: split JSON host name and IP address

  iputils/iputils#609 · Filter by author tacerus opened on Sep 11, 2025 · Next release
  1

• arping: print warning when layer2 is disabled on s390x

  enhancement
  iputils/iputils#604 · Filter by author pevik opened on Aug 6, 2025 · Next release
  3

• A question about the -c param

  iputils/iputils#603 · Filter by author mohamedkammoun123 opened on Jul 8, 2025
  3

• inverse Heisenbug: iputils clockdiff returns host down, except when straced

  iputils/iputils#602 · Filter by author kalofoli opened on Jun 27, 2025
  1

• -DBUILD_HTML_MANS=false is broken

  bug
  iputils/iputils#595 · Filter by author pevik opened on Jun 2, 2025

• [Behavior Change] arping results in exit value of 1 if sent < received

  iputils/iputils#593 · Filter by author ekenyon676 opened on May 19, 2025
  2

• ping RTT: replace gettimeofday() to CLOCK_MONOTONIC, struct timespec, clock_gettime()

  enhancement
  iputils/iputils#587 · Filter by author pevik opened on May 9, 2025

• ping -f always says last packet was not answered

  need info
  iputils/iputils#583 · Filter by author ValeZAA opened on Apr 26, 2025
  12

• arping -I failed to find altname of the NIC

  iputils/iputils#582 · Filter by author standby24x7 opened on Apr 22, 2025
  1

• NLS: a small typo (probably) that prevents gettext() translations

  iputils/iputils#576 · Filter by author yvs2014 opened on Dec 19, 2024

• ping linked against ucLibc and musl

  bug
  iputils/iputils#575 · Filter by author yvs2014 opened on Dec 5, 2024 · Next release
  7

  

• RFD: can we make explicit link against libidn2 optional?

  iputils/iputils#573 · Filter by author yvs2014 opened on Dec 3, 2024

• ping -w -c counts error responses towards exiting

  enhancement
  iputils/iputils#565 · Filter by author nmeyerhans opened on Nov 13, 2024 · Next release

• Unify data size output

  enhancement
  iputils/iputils#559 · Filter by author pevik opened on Oct 18, 2024 · Future

• One question about ret value of ping

  bugregressionreproducer
  iputils/iputils#557 · Filter by author xanoxes opened on Sep 24, 2024 · Next release
  2

• Different ping behaviors depending on socket types

  iputils/iputils#555 · Filter by author pastalian opened on Sep 11, 2024
  3

• tree: Create macros wrapping error()

  enhancement
  iputils/iputils#552 · Filter by author pevik opened on Aug 28, 2024 · Future
  

• Question: Empty output from running command

  iputils/iputils#549 · Filter by author NikitaOstr opened on Jul 31, 2024
  1

• arping: send_pack() return code is ignored, errno value lost

  iputils/iputils#544 · Filter by author pevik opened on May 24, 2024

• [RFC] ping rewrite: can be in Rust?

  new RFC / experimentalquestion
  iputils/iputils#537 · Filter by author pevik opened on May 5, 2024
  3