Debian Bug report logs - #565137
inetutils-ping: please implement "-w deadline" option

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: inetutils-ping: please implement "-w deadline" option

Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:07:48 +0100 (CET)

Package: inetutils-ping
Version: 0.6.19-1
Severity: wishlist
User: debian-bsd@lists.debian.org
Usertags: kfreebsd

Hi,

on linux, iputils-ping is frequently used. It is also the default one
for nagios plugins. Therefore nagios is currently uninstallable on 
GNU/kFreeBSD, see #555532.

For proper funcionality of nagios is needed to implement this option
of iputils-ping:

 -w deadline
    Specify  a  timeout, in seconds, before ping exits regardless of
    how many packets have been sent or received. In this  case ping
    does  not  stop after count packet are sent, it waits either for
    deadline expire or until count probes are answered or for some
    error notification from network.


Thanks for considering.

Petr

Message #10 received at 565137@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jan Wagner <waja@cyconet.org>

To: 565137@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>

Subject: Re: inetutils-ping: please implement "-w deadline" option

Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:09:22 +0100

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Hi there,

On Wednesday, 13. January 2010, you wrote:
> on linux, iputils-ping is frequently used. It is also the default one
> for nagios plugins. Therefore nagios is currently uninstallable on
> GNU/kFreeBSD, see #555532.
>
> For proper funcionality of nagios is needed to implement this option
> of iputils-ping:

on behalf of the Nagios maintainers ... without this deadline option, we run 
into the 10 seconds timout such often, that it is not possible to use the host 
alive check in a productive environment, as there are to much false positives.
 
>   -w deadline
>      Specify  a  timeout, in seconds, before ping exits regardless of
>      how many packets have been sent or received. In this  case ping
>      does  not  stop after count packet are sent, it waits either for
>      deadline expire or until count probes are answered or for some
>      error notification from network.

also really good would be:

       -W timeout
        Time to wait for a response, in seconds. The option affects only
        timeout in absense of any responses, otherwise ping waits for two
        RTTs.

As long as we have this issue open, check_ping is likely unusable on all 
supported non-linux archs on debian.

Thanks and with kind regards, Jan.
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Message #15 received at 565137@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: Jan Wagner <waja@cyconet.org>, 565137@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>

Subject: Re: Bug#565137: inetutils-ping: please implement "-w deadline" option

Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:51:06 +0100

Hi!

On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 09:09:22 +0100, Jan Wagner wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13. January 2010, you wrote:
> > on linux, iputils-ping is frequently used. It is also the default one
> > for nagios plugins. Therefore nagios is currently uninstallable on
> > GNU/kFreeBSD, see #555532.
> >
> > For proper funcionality of nagios is needed to implement this option
> > of iputils-ping:
> 
> on behalf of the Nagios maintainers ... without this deadline option, we run 
> into the 10 seconds timout such often, that it is not possible to use the host 
> alive check in a productive environment, as there are to much false positives.

> >   -w deadline
> >      Specify  a  timeout, in seconds, before ping exits regardless of
> >      how many packets have been sent or received. In this  case ping
> >      does  not  stop after count packet are sent, it waits either for
> >      deadline expire or until count probes are answered or for some
> >      error notification from network.

This (-w, --timeout) is already implemented in the latest upstream
release which I should finish preparing and uploading to Debian.

> also really good would be:
> 
>        -W timeout
>         Time to wait for a response, in seconds. The option affects only
>         timeout in absense of any responses, otherwise ping waits for two
>         RTTs.

This has been briefly commented on the upstream mailing list but no
one has offered code yet, if you'd really like this as well, could you
file a new bug report on inetutils-ping, so that we don't clutter this
bug report?

thanks,
guillem

Message #20 received at 565137@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jan Wagner <waja@cyconet.org>

To: 565137@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#565137: inetutils-ping: please implement "-w deadline" option

Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:07:42 +0100

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Hi Guillem,

On Saturday 23 January 2010, you wrote:
> This (-w, --timeout) is already implemented in the latest upstream
> release which I should finish preparing and uploading to Debian.

oh cool, sounds great!

> > also really good would be:
> >
> >        -W timeout
> >         Time to wait for a response, in seconds. The option affects only
> >         timeout in absense of any responses, otherwise ping waits for two
> >         RTTs.
>
> This has been briefly commented on the upstream mailing list but no
> one has offered code yet, if you'd really like this as well, could you
> file a new bug report on inetutils-ping, so that we don't clutter this
> bug report?

Hmm ... what about cloning (and retile) the bug? Would you mind? :)

Cheers, Jan.
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Message #25 received at 565137@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jan Wagner <waja@cyconet.org>

To: 565137@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#565137: inetutils-ping: please implement "-w deadline" option

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:09:24 +0200

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Hi Guillem,

On Saturday 23 January 2010 17:07:42 Jan Wagner wrote:
> On Saturday 23 January 2010, you wrote:
> > This (-w, --timeout) is already implemented in the latest upstream
> > release which I should finish preparing and uploading to Debian.
>
> oh cool, sounds great!

what about the new package? Could we get that into squeeze soon?

Thanks and with kind regards, Jan.
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Message #30 received at 565137-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: 565137-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#565137: fixed in inetutils 2:1.8-1

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:48:01 +0000

Source: inetutils
Source-Version: 2:1.8-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
inetutils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

inetutils-ftp_1.8-1_amd64.deb
  to main/i/inetutils/inetutils-ftp_1.8-1_amd64.deb
inetutils-ftpd_1.8-1_amd64.deb
  to main/i/inetutils/inetutils-ftpd_1.8-1_amd64.deb
inetutils-inetd_1.8-1_amd64.deb
  to main/i/inetutils/inetutils-inetd_1.8-1_amd64.deb
inetutils-ping_1.8-1_amd64.deb
  to main/i/inetutils/inetutils-ping_1.8-1_amd64.deb
inetutils-syslogd_1.8-1_amd64.deb
  to main/i/inetutils/inetutils-syslogd_1.8-1_amd64.deb
inetutils-talk_1.8-1_amd64.deb
  to main/i/inetutils/inetutils-talk_1.8-1_amd64.deb
inetutils-talkd_1.8-1_amd64.deb
  to main/i/inetutils/inetutils-talkd_1.8-1_amd64.deb
inetutils-telnet_1.8-1_amd64.deb
  to main/i/inetutils/inetutils-telnet_1.8-1_amd64.deb
inetutils-telnetd_1.8-1_amd64.deb
  to main/i/inetutils/inetutils-telnetd_1.8-1_amd64.deb
inetutils-tools_1.8-1_amd64.deb
  to main/i/inetutils/inetutils-tools_1.8-1_amd64.deb
inetutils_1.8-1.debian.tar.gz
  to main/i/inetutils/inetutils_1.8-1.debian.tar.gz
inetutils_1.8-1.dsc
  to main/i/inetutils/inetutils_1.8-1.dsc
inetutils_1.8.orig.tar.gz
  to main/i/inetutils/inetutils_1.8.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 565137@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> (supplier of updated inetutils package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:00:53 +0200
Source: inetutils
Binary: inetutils-ftp inetutils-ftpd inetutils-inetd inetutils-ping inetutils-syslogd inetutils-talk inetutils-talkd inetutils-telnet inetutils-telnetd inetutils-tools
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 2:1.8-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Changed-By: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Description: 
 inetutils-ftp - File Transfer Protocol client
 inetutils-ftpd - File Transfer Protocol server
 inetutils-inetd - internet super server
 inetutils-ping - ICMP echo tool
 inetutils-syslogd - system logging daemon
 inetutils-talk - talk to another user
 inetutils-talkd - remote user communication server
 inetutils-telnet - telnet client
 inetutils-telnetd - telnet server
 inetutils-tools - base networking utilities (experimental package)
Closes: 404760 503567 515070 519316 565137 590128 594422
Changes: 
 inetutils (2:1.8-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release.
     - Implement “ping -w timeout”. (Closes: #565137)
     - debian/patches/01_no_link_extralibs.patch: Remove, merged upstream.
     - debian/patches/07_dev_test_e.patch: Likewise.
     - debian/patches/52_sigalarm.patch: Likewise.
     - debian/patches/99_acinclude_del_dnl.patch: Likewise.
     - debian/patches/99_ping_default_inf_count.patch: Likewise.
     - debian/patches/10_syslog_klog_doc.patch: Refreshed.
     - debian/patches/22_syslogd_conf.patch: Likewise.
     - debian/patches/30_ping_suid_perms.patch: Likewise.
     - debian/patches/50_split_load_conffile.patch: Likewise.
     - debian/patches/51_add_load_confdir_support.patch: Likewise.
     - debian/patches/53_man_inetd_max_conn.patch: Likewise.
   * Upstream switched to generate man pages from --help output, which is
     a regression from previous man pages inherited from BSD. Revert the
     removal and disable help2man logic.
     - debian/patches/01_revert_manpage_removal.patch: New file.
   * Install man pages for inetutils-ifconfig and ping6.
   * Fix man page warnings.
   * Switch to source format “3.0 (quilt)”:
     - Remove quilt from Build-Depends.
     - Remove quilt.make include from debian/rules.
     - Remove patch and unpatch targets from debian/rules.
     - Remove now unneeded quilt references in debian/README.source.
   * Remove Marcus Brinkmann and Jeff Bailey from Uploaders field, thanks for
     your previous work! (Closes: #503567)
   * Switch Vcs fields to the new git repositories.
   * Explicitly include BSD licenses into debian/copyright, instead of
     referencing generic and non-matching file from common-licenses.
   * Now using Standards-Version 3.9.1.
   * Remove obsolete and unused libopie-dev Build-Depends.
   * Do not segfault in inetd when a service does not have any argument.
     (Closes: #515070, #590128)
   * Make inetd listen on ports when enabling tcpmux services.
   * Change inetd “tcp” and “udp” service protocol semantics to default them
     to IPv4 only connections. Change “tcp6” and “udp6” to accept IPv4 mapped
     addresses. And add “tcp6only” and “udp6only” for IPv6 only connections.
     (Closes: #404760, #519316, #594422)
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