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net/fping,
Quickly ping many hosts w/o flooding the network
Branch: CURRENT,
Version: 5.5,
Package name: fping-5.5,
Maintainer: absA tool to quickly ping N number of hosts to determine their reachability
without flooding the network.
fping is different from ping in that you can specify any number of
hosts on the command line, or specify a file containing the lists
of hosts to ping. Instead of trying one host until it timeouts or
replies, fping will send out a ping packet and move on to the next
host in a round-robin fashion. If a host replies, it is noted and
removed from the list of hosts to check. If a host does not respond
within a certain time limit and/or retry limit it will be considered
unreachable.
Unlike ping, fping is meant to be used in scripts and its
output is easy to parse.
Required to build:[
pkgtools/cwrappers]
Package options: inet6
Master sites:
Filesize: 210.471 KB
Version history: (Expand)
- (2026-01-01) Updated to version: fping-5.5
- (2025-11-28) Updated to version: fping-5.4
- (2025-07-15) Package has been reborn
- (2025-07-15) Package deleted from pkgsrc
- (2025-01-03) Updated to version: fping-5.3
- (2024-04-25) Updated to version: fping-5.2
CVS history: (Expand)
2026-01-01 10:24:15 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (4) |  |
Log message:
fping: updated to 5.5
fping 5.5 (2025-12-31)
New features
New option -J / --json for JSON output. See doc/fping-json.md for the JSON \
schema. This feature is still in alpha and the schema might change in future \
releases
The -g, --generate option now also supports IPv6 addresses
New option --seqmap-timeout to control the time after which sequence numbers can \
be used again
Bugfixes and other changes
Fix OpenBSD sprintf() warning
Fix fallback to SO_TIMESTAMP if SO_TIMESTAMPNS is not available
When reading target names from file or standard input, lines longer than the \
static buffer are no longer interpreted as more than one line
Typo fix in error message when SO_BINDTODEVICE fails
Options --print-tos and --print-ttl now also work for IPv6, and no longer \
require privileges
Report received ICMPv6 error messages
Suppress duplicate reports in count mode with -q, --quiet or -Q, --squiet
Switch to alpine-based multi-stage Docker build to reduce image size and improve \
build performance; add OpenContainers-compatible labels
Print receive ping moved to new functions
Avoid unsigned overflow when determining the memory size to save response times \
on systems where size_t is the same as unsigned int
Document the new minimum value for the -p option
Fix build without IPv6 support
Fix debug build use of dbg_printf in fping.c
Remove MacOS-specific test for -I option
GitHub Actions fixes (thanks @gsnw-sebast)
Fix measurement of time for timed reports (-Q) to start after DNS name resolution.
Updated autoconf from 2.71 to 2.72
Updated automake from 1.16.5 to 1.18.1
Updated libtool from 2.4.6 to 2.5.4
Implemented verification of autotools tarballs in Github actions.
Implemented stricter flag value checking (e.g. -c 10xyz is not accepted anymore).
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2025-11-28 13:12:21 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (2) |  |
Log message:
fping: updated to 5.4
5.4
Bugfixes
Memory allocation safety checks for event storage (thanks David.A for the bug report)
Fix off-by-one boundary check in seqmap code (thanks David.A for the bug report)
The minimum value for the period (-p flag) is now 0.001 milliseconds,
since it probably never makes sense to use a smaller value, and to avoid doing
a very large memory allocation for event storage.
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2025-01-03 14:43:12 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (2) |  |
Log message:
fping: updated to 5.3
fping 5.3 (2025-01-02)
New features
- New option --icmp-timestamp to send ICMP timestamp requests (ICMP type 13)
instead of ICMP Echo requests
- New option --print-ttl to print returned TTL value
- New option --print-tos to print returned TOS value
@auerswal and @gsnw-sebast)
- New option --check-source
- Predefined various timestamp formats
- Print cumulative stats with -Q SECS,cumulative
Bugfixes and other changes
- ci: Upgrade actions/upload-artifact to v4
- ci: Azure Pipeline only trigger when changes are made in the development branch
- ci: Upgrade actions/upload-artifact to v3
- ci: Azure Pipeline YAML add docker build
- Dockerfile: change distribution from ubuntu to debian
@gsnw-sebast)
- Fix warning unused parameter 'reply_timestamp' under macOS
@gsnw-sebast)
- Fix increase maximum -s value to 65507
- ci: use File::Temp to create temporary directory
- Fix -k, --fwmark with setuid fping executable
- Another batch of additional tests (take 2)
- Document that -a and -u are overridden by -c and -C
- Fix macOS build warning sets SEQMAP_TIMEOUT_IN_NSSEQMAP_TIMEOUT_IN_NS as INT64_C
- Fix inconsistent limits for address generation via -g, --generator using either
range or CIDR
- Some additional tests
- ci: skip an unreliable test on macOS
- Fix incorrect return-value check for a scanf like function (CWE-253)
thanks @gsnw-sebast)
- A few more tests to increase code coverage a little bit
- Github fix: Change to codeql-action-v2
- Developer function: Debug with Visual Studio Code
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2024-04-25 11:45:57 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (3) |  |
Log message:
fping: updated to 5.2
fping 5.2 (2024-04-21)
New features
- New option -X / --fast-reachable to exit immediately once N hosts have been
found
- New option -k / -fwmark to set Linux fwmark mask
Bugfixes and other changes
- Always output fatal error messages
- Fallback to SO\_TIMESTAMP if SO\_TIMESTAMPNS is not available
- Fix "not enough sequence numbers available" error on BSD-like systems
- Fix running in unprivileged mode
- Fix build issue for NetBSD/alpha
- Fix build issue for OpenBSD/alpha
- Fix build warning for long int usage
- Fix build error with musl libc
- Fix to guard against division by zero
- Decouple -a/-u effects from -c
- Added contrib/Dockerfile
- Remove host from Netdata chart titles
- Add additional tests
- Update github action os images
- Fix Azure pipeline tests
- Various autoconf fixes
- Extended configure script with --enable-debug and output cpu usage
- Documentation: Update Netdata website link
- Documentation: fix description of --file option
- Documentation: improve exit status description
- Documentation: move description of -i MSEC
- Documentation: improve help output for options -c and -C
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| 2022-05-13 06:51:38 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2) |
Log message:
fping: add upstream bug report URL to patch
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2022-05-13 06:49:10 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2) |  |
Log message:
fping: update to 5.1.
fping 5.1 (2022-02-06)
======================
## Bugfixes and other changes
- Use setcap to specify specific files in fping.spec (#232, thanks @zdyxry)
- Netdata: use host instead name as family label (#226, thanks @k0ste)
- Netdata: use formatstring macro PRId64 (#229, thanks @gsnw)
- Allow -4 option to be given multiple times (#215, thanks @normanr)
- Documentation fix (#208, thanks @timgates42)
- Retain privileges until after privileged setsockopt (#200, thanks @simetnicbr)
- Set bind to source only when option is set (#198, thanks @dinoex)
- Update Azure test pipeline (#197, thanks @gsnw)
- Fix getnameinfo not called properly for IPv4 (#227, thanks @aafbsd)
- Fixed wrong timestamp under Free- and OpenBSD and macOS (#217, thanks @gsnw)
- Documentation updates (#240, thanks @auerswal)
- Updated autotools (autoconf 2.71, automake 1.16.5, libtool 2.4.6)
fping 5.0 (2020-08-05)
======================
## Incompatible Changes
- In non-quiet loop and count mode, a line is printed for every lost packet
(#175, thanks @kbucheli):
```
$ fping -D -c2 8.8.8.8 8.8.8.7
[1596092373.18423] 8.8.8.8 : [0], 64 bytes, 12.8 ms (12.8 avg, 0% loss)
[1596092374.18223] 8.8.8.7 : [0], timed out (NaN avg, 100% loss)
[1596092374.18424] 8.8.8.8 : [1], 64 bytes, 12.3 ms (12.5 avg, 0% loss)
[1596092375.18344] 8.8.8.7 : [1], timed out (NaN avg, 100% loss)
8.8.8.8 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 2/2/0%, min/avg/max = 12.3/12.5/12.8
8.8.8.7 : xmt/rcv/%loss = 2/0/100%
```
- The returned size in bytes now always excludes the IP header, so if before it
reported '84 bytes' e.g. when using 'fping -l', now it reports '64 bytes'.
This is to make the reported size consistent with ping(8) from iputils and
also with fping when pinging a IPv6 host (which never included the IPv6
header size).
## New features
- The number of sent pings is only counted when the pings are received or have
timed out, ensuring that the loss ratio will be always correct. This makes it
possible, for example, to use loop mode (-l) with interval statistics (-Q)
and a timeout larger than period, without having the issue that initially
some pings would be reported as missing (#193)
- Improved precision of measurements from 10us to 1us (#136, thanks @tycho)
## Bugfixes and other changes
- The reported size of received packets is now always correct on Linux even for
packets > 4096 bytes (#180)
- Travis CI automated testing now also macos testing and additional ubuntu
distributions (#196)
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| 2021-10-26 13:07:15 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (958) |
Log message:
net: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums
All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
Not committed (merge conflicts...):
net/radsecproxy/distinfo
The following distfiles could not be fetched (fetched conditionally?):
./net/citrix_ica/distinfo citrix_ica-10.6.115659/en.linuxx86.tar.gz
./net/djbdns/distinfo dnscache-1.05-multiple-ip.patch
./net/djbdns/distinfo djbdns-1.05-test28.diff.xz
./net/djbdns/distinfo djbdns-1.05-ignoreip2.patch
./net/djbdns/distinfo djbdns-1.05-multiip.diff
./net/djbdns/distinfo djbdns-cachestats.patch
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| 2021-10-07 16:43:07 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (962) |
Log message:
net: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
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