PING failed with SegFAULT!!!

I am running a moderately sophisticated script to monitor site
http://www.algebra.com/ and restart Apache if it is stuck, or send me
text messages to cell phone if I cannot restart it etc.

I run it from my home computer.

As part of this script I ping
google to see if my internet connection is up. And if google is not
pingable, I report a "home internet is down" error condition.

It's great. Here's what alarmed me. Today something caused ping to
segfault:

sh: line 1: 26675 Segmentation fault ping -c 2 www.google.com >/dev/null


My question is, WTF. What could make ping crash? Is there some hack
attack underway? DNS poisoning, etc?

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Ignoramus15474 wrote:
> It's great. Here's what alarmed me. Today something caused ping to
> segfault:
>
> sh: line 1: 26675 Segmentation fault ping -c 2 www.google.com >/dev/null

Bad memory? Get a copy of memtest86 and run it overnight.