Merge ping+ping6 and traceroue+traceroute6 to single utilities?

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

>   Is here any project to merge ping/ping6 into ping and
> traceroute/traceroute6 into treaceroute? As IPv6 becomes more common these
> days, it is very inconvenient to have these utilities separated.

Yes please, they should absolutely be merged. And then -4 / -6 options
could be used (like telnet/ssh) to choose the protocol for names which
have both A and AAAA records.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no