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c/linuxmemes · by 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2y

Ping is so mean 🥺

275 points · 20 comments · view on lemmy.world

20 Comments

AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 119 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I got your IP adress, see you soon kiddo 😎

Bezier@suppo.fi · 40 pts · 2y

OP must be my neighbour

roguetrick@kbin.social · 25 pts · 2y

I'm already in the network... Wait...

Sylver@lemmy.world · 68 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Wait a second… That’s MY ip!

herrcaptain@lemmy.ca · 38 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Wait ... the ping is coming from inside the house!

0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 2y

Holy shit 😱 (unplugs everything from mains... waits in terror in a corner...)

0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 43 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Wow, that is an unhelpful error message. It could have told you it was expecting a number. It turns out that -i is short for "interval" and expects a number, whereas -I is used to specify an interface.

aniki@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 2y

This exactly. And because this is open-source, its super easy to track this down. I searched for the source of the error message:

https://github.com/iputils/iputils/blob/3400f3a740942064a545f02aabcf68e234733297/ping/ping.c#L237

see this is ping_strtod function - so search for that function name and the first hit is the '-i' case:

		case 'i':
		{
			double optval;

			optval = ping_strtod(optarg, _("bad timing interval"));
			if (isless(optval, 0) || isgreater(optval, (double)INT_MAX / 1000))
				error(2, 0, _("bad timing interval: %s"), optarg);
			rts.interval = (int)(optval * 1000);
			rts.opt_interval = 1;
		}
			break;
NotMelon@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Hahahahah you just doxed yourself hahahahah

Rooki@lemmy.world · -14 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Ahh yes get doxed through local ip XD

Thade780@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 2y

Woooooosh

bleistift2@feddit.de · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It’s actually a technical term in language theory – a term that cannot be produced by the language, but is still considered part of the ‘universe’ (i.e., the set of all terms) is called ‘garbage’ or ‘junk’.

Since I can’t find a source online to verify this claim, this might just have been the case in my courses…

damium@programming.dev · 5 pts · 2y

"Invalid" or "unparseable" are more understandable descriptors in normal language. I don't think I ever heard of garbage/junk being used for that in language theory but it may be domain specific usage.

felbane@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

See, even ping hates "consistent device naming!"

krnl386@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Good old git blame lol! Not only can you determine when the change was made and where, it’s trivial to look up the author of the commit: https://github.com/iputils/iputils/commit/562e0d570d93cfcfdebab1215a2f04efa64a24f8

To be fair, the author’s first language may not be English…

Is anyone interested in submitting a pull request? Looks like Github contributions are accepted.

TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

My dude. It's not a bug, OP just used small i instead of capital. Please don't bother developers over this.

krnl386@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I think descriptive and useful error messages are OK to report as enhancements. They don’t have to be functional bugs.

TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y

There might be a reason it was never fixed. Something stupid like a lot of 30 year old scripts relying on this out come. Hope not, you're right that error message is ass

0xb@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

-Me talking to people on twitter after nov 22 and before leaving

popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y

Same tbh.

umbrella@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2y
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