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-rw-r--r--Makefile.am19
-rw-r--r--changes/testing3
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 7567ca99c7..c475ee3a17 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -380,10 +380,9 @@ test-network-clean:
#
# Run the IPv4 tests in $(ipv4_flavors), unconditionally
# - tor relays and directory authorities require IPv4.
-# Run the IPv6 tests in $(ipv6_flavors), if IPv6 is available
-# - only run IPv6 tests if we can ping6 or ping -6 ::1 (localhost)
-# we try the syntax for BSD ping6, Linux ping6, and Linux ping -6,
-# because they're incompatible
+# Run the IPv6 tests in $(ipv6_flavors), unconditionally
+# - clients don't technically require IPv6, but it's not worth
+# supporting running this test suite on such systems.
# - some IPv6 tests may fail without an IPv6 DNS server
# (see #16971 and #17011)
# Run the mixed tests in $(mixed_flavors), if a tor-stable binary is available
@@ -403,20 +402,14 @@ test-network-run: need-chutney-path test-driver $(TESTING_TOR_BINARY) src/tools/
test_network_ipv6=false; \
if test -n "$(ipv6_flavors)" || \
test -n "$(ipv6_mixed_flavors)"; then \
- if ping6 -q -c 1 -o ::1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || \
- ping6 -q -c 1 -W 1 ::1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || \
- ping -6 -c 1 -W 1 ::1 >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
- test_network_ipv6=true; \
- fi; \
+ test_network_ipv6=true; \
fi; \
if test -n "$(ipv6_flavors)"; then \
if test "$$test_network_ipv6" = "true"; then \
- echo "ping6 ::1 or ping ::1 succeeded, running IPv6" \
- "flavors: $(ipv6_flavors)."; \
+ echo "Running IPv6 flavors: $(ipv6_flavors)."; \
flavors="$$flavors $(ipv6_flavors)"; \
else \
- echo "ping6 ::1 and ping ::1 failed, skipping IPv6" \
- "flavors: $(ipv6_flavors)."; \
+ echo "Skipping IPv6 flavors: $(ipv6_flavors)."; \
skip_flavors="$$skip_flavors $(ipv6_flavors)"; \
fi; \
fi; \
diff --git a/changes/testing b/changes/testing
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..744a7849d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/testing
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+ o Minor feature (testing):
+ - test-network now unconditionally includes IPv6 instead of trying to
+ detect IPv6 support.