diff --git a/check_ping_fix_ip4.patch b/check_ping_fix_ip4.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..37f0efd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/check_ping_fix_ip4.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff -ur monitoring-plugins-2.2/plugins/check_ping.c monitoring-plugins-2.2_fix/plugins/check_ping.c
+--- monitoring-plugins-2.2/plugins/check_ping.c	2016-11-29 09:45:08.000000000 +0100
++++ monitoring-plugins-2.2_fix/plugins/check_ping.c	2019-04-09 14:09:57.574380368 +0200
+@@ -128,6 +128,11 @@
+ #else
+ 		xasprintf (&cmd, rawcmd, addresses[i], max_packets);
+ #endif
++		if (address_family == AF_INET) {
++			free(rawcmd);
++			rawcmd = cmd;
++			xasprintf (&cmd, "%s -4", rawcmd);
++		}
+ 
+ 		if (verbose >= 2)
+ 			printf ("CMD: %s\n", cmd);
diff --git a/monitoring-plugins.changes b/monitoring-plugins.changes
index 4bfa5f2..a2b59db 100644
--- a/monitoring-plugins.changes
+++ b/monitoring-plugins.changes
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ Fri Apr 12 14:20:08 CEST 2019 - ro@suse.de
 
 - update usr.lib.nagios.plugins.check_procs to bash in /usr 
 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Apr  9 12:19:20 UTC 2019 - Dirk Stoecker <opensuse@dstoecker.de>
+
+- support IPv4 ping for dual stacked host again: check_ping_fix_ip4.patch
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Nov 30 14:25:19 CET 2018 - ro@suse.de
 
diff --git a/monitoring-plugins.spec b/monitoring-plugins.spec
index df07da1..e16885a 100644
--- a/monitoring-plugins.spec
+++ b/monitoring-plugins.spec
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ Source59:       nrpe-check_mysql
 Source60:       nrpe-check_ups
 # PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM Quote the options comming in from users (path names might contain whitespaces)
 Patch1:         %{name}-2.1.1-check_logfile.patch
+# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM Allow to ping IPv4 with check_ping again for dual stack hosts: https://github.com/monitoring-plugins/monitoring-plugins/issues/1550
+Patch2:         check_ping_fix_ip4.patch
 # PATCH-FIX-OPENSUSE do not use chown in Makefile (not possible when building as normal user)
 Patch6:         %{name}-1.4.6-no_chown.patch
 # PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM Use correct pointer
@@ -1102,6 +1104,7 @@ EOF
 done
 
 %patch1 -p1
+%patch2 -p1
 %patch6 -p1
 %patch11 -p1
 %patch15 -p1