iputils-ping ping -I IPADDRESS not working in iputils-s20150815

[Christian]

command
ping -I 10.10.10.254 10.10.10.1
ping: unknown iface 10.10.10.254

it works though when using -I Iface name (ex. eth2)

Seen on:

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=yakkety
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.10"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.10 (Yakkety Yak)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.10"
VERSION_ID="16.10"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=yakkety
UBUNTU_CODENAME=yakkety
sqa@simubu16:~/devel/iputils$ uname -a
Linux simubu16 4.8.0-22-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 8 09:15:00 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
sqa@simubu16:~/devel/iputils$ ping -V
ping utility, iputils-s20150815
sqa@simubu16:~/devel/iputils$

[David Heidelberg (okias)]

With latest -git version it works for me, could you check it? [1]

[1] https://github.com/iputils/iputils

Maybe ubuntu will need some backport.