Comment 2 for bug 82720

The importance on this needs to be raised. ping is essentially broken with certain IP addresses, DNS servers, and negative responses. Maybe the problem isn't in ping but is in the resolver library? I can't do the code myself, and it's not a problem for me to remember to do "ping -n". However, this would seriously confuse a user and probably cause them to think a machine is down, when it is in fact up.