I got your IP adress, see you soon kiddo 😎
I’m already in the network… Wait…
Wait a second… That’s MY ip!
Wait … the ping is coming from inside the house!
Holy shit 😱 (unplugs everything from mains… waits in terror in a corner…)
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.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;
Hahahahah you just doxed yourself hahahahah
Ahh yes get doxed through local ip XD
Woooooosh
See, even ping hates “consistent device naming!”
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.
-Me talking to people on twitter after nov 22 and before leaving
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Same tbh.