Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 20 Jan 2000 01:35:02 +0000 Received: (qmail 2409 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2000 01:35:00 -0000 Received: from lyell.csse.monash.edu.au (postfix@130.194.64.41) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 20 Jan 2000 01:35:00 -0000 Received: by lyell.csse.monash.edu.au (Postfix, from userid 3752) id 825FBF30D; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:34:56 +1100 (EST) From: Brian May Subject: netbase: -v returns error packet too short To: submit@bugs.debian.org X-Mailer: bug 3.2.7 Reply-To: bmay@csse.monash.edu.au Message-Id: <20000120013456.825FBF30D@lyell.csse.monash.edu.au> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:34:56 +1100 (EST) Sender: bmay@lyell.csse.monash.edu.au Package: netbase Version: 3.16-8 Severity: normal I have noticed for some time now that ping -v cannot parse incoming icmp messages (unless it was the expected reply). eg: [533] [lyell:bmay] ~ >ping -v master.debian.org [...] ping: packet too short (56 bytes) from 130.194.225.166 [...] tcpdump can display the same packet fine: 12:29:51.843583 mobile4.csse.monash.edu.au > ALL-SYSTEMS.MCAST.NET: icmp: router advertisement lifetime 15 2: {mobile4.csse.monash.edu.au 2147483649} {mobile4.csse.monash.edu.au 2147483649} [ttl 1] Actually, in that case, the message was entirely unrelated to my ping to master.debian.org (perhaps ping cant tell?), but I have also seen the same message for network unreachable errors, etc. -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux lyell 2.2.13 #1 Sat Nov 20 12:44:19 EST 1999 i686 unknown Versions of the packages netbase depends on: ii libc6 2.1.2-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii tcpd 7.6-2 Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilities