------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun Dec 30 22:27:53 UTC 2018 - Lars Vogdt - Version 4.1 + Fix problem when socket fd is 0 (#125, thanks Ramón Novoa!) + Fix running on servers with disabled IPv6 (#118, thanks Simon Matter) + Allow running "fping -h" or "--help" even when raw socket can't be opened (#131, thanks @teto) + Fix build issue with FreeBSD and IPv6 (#132, thanks @gsnw) - ran spec-cleaner - remove INSTALL file - add COPYING file - run set_permissions (incl. verify_permissions) on newer distributions as fping now gets capabilities cap_net_raw=ep (bsc#1047921) via /etc/permissions.easy and /etc/permissions.secure ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon May 8 15:54:41 UTC 2017 - liedke@rz.uni-mannheim.de - Version 4.0 * feature: Auto-adjust timeout for -c/-C/-l mode to value of -p * feature: Enforce -t timeout on reply packets, by discarding late packets (#32) * feature: Option -d/--rdns now always does a rdns-lookup, even for names, as '-n' was doing until now * feature: Keep original name if a hostname is given with -n/--name * feature: New option -6 to force IPv6 * feature: New option -4 to force IPv4 * feature: IPv6 enabled by default * feature: Long option names for all options * feature: Unified 'fping' and 'fping6' into one binary (#80) * feature: fping and fping6 are now unified into one binary. * bugfix: -i/-p restrictions disabled by default (enable with --enable-safe-limits) * bugfix: Default interval -i changed from 25ms to 10ms * bugfix: Fix compatibility issue with GNU Hurd * bugfix: A C99 compiler is now required * bugfix: Option parsing with optparse * bugfix: New changelog file format ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Feb 28 12:56:43 UTC 2017 - liedke@rz.uni-mannheim.de 2017-02-09 David Schweikert * Version 3.16 * (feature) Support kernel-timestamping of received packets (#46) * (feature) Simplify restrictions: only -i >= 1 and -p >= 10 are enforced now * (bugfix) Fix option -m to return all IPs of a hostname * (bugfix) Fix option -H (ttl) for IPv6 * (bugfix) Fix option -M (don't fragment) for IPv6 * (bugfix) Fix option -O (ToS) for IPv6 * (bugfix) Fix compatibility issue with AIX (#69, @blentzgh) * (bugfix) Fix option -q not suppressing some ICMP error messages (#83) * (bugfix) Fix option -M expecting an argument, when it shouldn't * (bugfix) Fix minor issues found by Coverity Scan 2017-01-11 David Schweikert * Version 3.15 * (bugfix) Fix compiler errors on platforms other than Linux (related to the new -M option, #109) * Test suite fixes for macOS 2017-01-10 David Schweikert * Version 3.14 * (feature) Ignore network and broadcast for cidrs /31 and /32 (#102, Martin Topholm) * (feature) New option '-M' to set the "Don't Fragment" flag (#91, Don Bowman) * (feature) New option '-N' to output statistics for netdata (see: http://my-netdata.io/, #105, Costa Tsaousis) * (feature) New option '-o' to calculate total outage time (#90, @jgerbeck) * (bugfix) Exit code should be 2 when the hostname can't be resolved (fixes #98, reported by @green-fox) * (bugfix) Fix issue compliling on RHEL/Centos 7 (#95, @jbackman) * (bugfix) Lower -i limit to 1 instead of 10 * (bugfix) Improve interval preciseness of -Q reporting * (bugfix) Fix occasional false positive in -Q reporting (#97) * (bugfix) Solaris 10 portability fix (#107, Peter Bray) 2015-10-21 David Schweikert * Version 3.13 * (bugfix) Fix ICMP errors sometimes causing crashes with fping >= 3.11 (fixes #85, reported by Jamie Heilman and Bill Blough) 2015-10-14 David Schweikert * Version 3.12 * (bugfix) Fix fping6 -R (fixes #84, reported by Stuart Henderson) 2015-10-12 David Schweikert * Version 3.11 * (feature) New option -R to use random bytes instead of NULLs (#72, Anthony DeRobertis) * (feature) Small documentation and performance improvements (Ryan Underwood) * (bugfix) Fix double entries with fping -u and unreachable hosts * (internal) Use sockaddr_storage and simplify code, so that we can one day support both IPv4 and IPv6 with the same binary 2014-05-03 David Schweikert * Version 3.10 * Fix confusing error message with -g and IPv6 addresses (#58, reported by Axel Beckert) * Allow option '-f' also for non-root (since setuid privileges are dropped) * Do not retry twice DNS lookup on DNS lookup problem * Remove support for NIS groups * Better document -B backoff-factor and when it can be used (#33, Oleksiy Zagorskyi) * More tests added 2014-03-08 David Schweikert * Version 3.9 * Fix random output on socket error (reported by Aleksandrs Saveljevs, #56) * Support ppc64le architecture by including alpha libtool version (reported by Amit Kumar Gupta and Aravinda B Thunug) * Fix compilation problem on FreeBSD (#57) * Initial test suite and continous intergration (with travis-ci.org / coveralls.io) * Don't output usage information on error 2013-11-08 David Schweikert * Version 3.8 * Fix segmentation fault introduced in version 3.7 with loop mode (reported by Vlad Glagolev, #55) 2013-11-04 David Schweikert * Version 3.7 * Allow running as non-root on Mac OS X by using non-privileged ICMP (#7) * Remove unnecessary IPv6 socket options * Fix again compatibility issue with FreeBSD (Shawn Chu) * Fix fping hanging forever on permanent sendto failure (Shawn Chu) * Fix duplicate echo reply packets causing early stop in count mode (reported by Ramon Schwammberger, #53) 2013-10-10 David Schweikert * Version 3.6 * Fix loop issue after 65536 pings (reported by Peter Folk and GBert, #12) * Minimum ping data size is now 0 * Removed setsockopt IPV6_CHECKSUM, which shouldn't be set and breaks compiling on Solaris (reported by Juergen Arndt) * Fix wrong min RTT value with -Q option (reported by Alexander Ivanov, #51) 2013-05-22 David Schweikert * Version 3.5 * Fix sprint_tm buffer size crash (reported by Japheth Cleaver) * Addded -D flag to print timestamps (Toke Høiland-Jørgensen) * Fix fping6 build on OS X 10.8 (unknown contributor) * Fix compatibility issue with FreeBSD (Alexandre Raynaud, Jason Harris, #39) * Fping.spec: fix setuid permissions and provides fping6 (Marcus Vinicius Ferreira) * Re-create configure script with autoconf 2.69 for aarch64 support (Chuck Anderson, #45) 2012-09-04 David Schweikert * Version 3.4 * Revert "Output statistics to stdout instead of stderr", because it breaks tools assuming the output goes to stderr 2012-08-19 David Schweikert * Version 3.3 * Do not output icmp errors with -q (#1) * Add --enable-ipv4 and --enable-ipv6 options to configure (Niclas Zeising) * Fix removing of unreachable hosts when doing loop (Thomas Liske, #13 #23) * Fix -A for fping6 (reported by Matt LaPlante, #14) * Fix "options inet6" breaking IPv4 name resolution (reported by Matt LaPlante, #17) * Output statistics to stdout instead of stderr (suggested by Simon Leinen, #9) * Set default data size to 56 bytes on all architectures (#18) * Added contrib/fping.spec (Stephen Schaefer, #24) * Convert man-page source to POD for easier maintenance * Fix error message on DNS error for IPv6 hosts (#27) * Fix -n flag in fping6 (#28) * Man-page fix: TOS option typo (Thomas Liske, #23) * Man-page fix: inconsistency in regards to numeric arguments (Robert Henney) * Man-page fix: better description of option -q (#15) 2012-05-29 David Schweikert * Version 3.2 * Improve documentation for -g option (G.W. Haywood) * Performance optimization for big select timeouts (#10, Andrey Bondarenko) * Fix restart of select call after interrupt signal (#8, Boian Bonev) * Fix infinite loop caused by linked list corruption (#11, Boian Bonev) 2012-04-26 David Schweikert * Version 3.1 * -g option (generate): exclude network and broadcast address for cidr ranges (idea by Eric Brander) * do not explicitely check if running as root, to make it possible to install fping with linux capabilities instead of making it setuid (setcap cap_net_raw+ep fping) * ANSI C (C89) compiler now a requirement * Portability fixes * Reorganized source directory * Bugfix: fix timeout issue on Solaris (Sandor Geller) * Man-page fixes (Axel Beckert) * Added -H option to specify number of hops (Paul Duda) * Output usage information to stdout when called with -h (Paul Duda) 2011-12-28 David Schweikert * Version 3.0 * rewritten main loop for improved performance * -T parameter (select timeout) now obsolete * Maintenance taken over from unresponsive previous maintainer (anybody please step up, if you disagree) * New homepage: www.fping.org 2009-12-21 Tobi Oetiker * Version v2.4b2-to3-ipv6 * added -On option to set the TOS octet * Removed unused variables from code * updated to current autoconf standards * Merged Debian changes (see below) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Jan 25 21:36:00 CET 2006 - mls@suse.de - converted neededforbuild to BuildRequires ------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri May 7 11:30:05 CEST 2004 - hmacht@suse.de - Upgrade to version 2.4b2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Apr 22 16:35:26 CEST 2004 - postadal@suse.cz - fixed gcc warnings ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tue Sep 17 17:34:28 CEST 2002 - ro@suse.de - removed bogus self-provides ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Jun 11 14:58:35 CEST 2001 - schwab@suse.de - Fix alignment problem properly. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Jul 19 14:13:50 CEST 2000 - schwab@suse.de - Fix alignment problem. - Pass CFLAGS during configure run. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Apr 13 14:47:45 CEST 2000 - nadvornik@suse.cz - added BuildRoot ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sat Feb 12 20:29:40 MET 2000 - grimmer@suse.de - added Group tag to spec file - use version macro in spec file - added full URL to Source tag - use _mandir macro in spec file - added CXXFLAGS to %build section ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Sep 13 17:23:57 CEST 1999 - bs@suse.de - ran old prepare_spec on spec file to switch to new prepare_spec. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Thu Apr 22 02:26:53 MEST 1999 - ro@suse.de - fixed for alpha ------------------------------------------------------------------- Fri Jan 29 12:44:02 MET 1999 - grimmer@suse.de - new Package (Version 2.2b1)