> Am I using ping6 wrong?
I'm pretty sure the other end has to be running `pingd` to get a response from ping. Some do, some don't.
I might be wrong but that's always been my understanding.
I'm pretty sure the other end has to be running `pingd` to get a response from ping. Some do, some don't.
I might be wrong but that's always been my understanding.
What is unfortunately common though is people blocking ICMP at their firewall, either at the host level itself or further upstream. Sometimes they just block echo requests, but often they block ICMP entirely which breaks things in very weird ways from time to time.
Blocking ICMP in any way is generally to be considered harmful. It's not 1997 anymore, the "ping of death" is not a thing on any OS you should actually be connecting to the internet.