ping -R option broken?

[Rick Stevens]

Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:50:56PM -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>> Fedora 10:
>> $ ping -R intranet
>> ping: record route: No message of desired type
>>
>> Fedora 9:
>> $ ping -R intranet
>> PING intranet.cchtml.com (10.0.0.1) 56(124) bytes of data.
>> 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=65 time=0.091 ms
>> RR: 	10.0.0.1
>> 	10.0.0.1
>> 	10.0.0.1
>> 	10.0.0.1
>>
>> I've tested this on two F10 and two F9 machines. Both F10 machines emit  
>> the same message as above. Ideas?
>>
> 
> strace? I can't reproduce this on any rawhide or F10 machine I have
> here...

I can:

[root at prophead ~]# ping -R golem3
ping: record route: No message of desired type

[root at prophead ~]# ping -R intranet
ping: record route: No message of desired type

[root at prophead ~]# rpm -q iputils
iputils-20071127-6.fc10.x86_64

[root at prophead ~]# cat /etc/issue
Fedora release 10 (Cambridge)
Kernel \r on an \m (\l)
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