ping: socket: Address family not supported by protocol

[bagas]

Hello.
My system Linux 5.10.52-gentoo x86_64.
Noticed such an error.

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ping google.com
ping: socket: Address family not supported by protocol
PING google.com (173.194.222.138) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from lo-in-f138.1e100.net (173.194.222.138): icmp_seq=1 ttl=109 time=31.2 ms
64 bytes from lo-in-f138.1e100.net (173.194.222.138): icmp_seq=2 ttl=109 time=31.3 ms
64 bytes from lo-in-f138.1e100.net (173.194.222.138): icmp_seq=3 ttl=109 time=31.2 ms

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[ebuild   R    ] net-misc/iputils-20210202::gentoo  USE="arping filecaps nls ssl -caps -clockdiff -doc -gcrypt -idn -ipv6 -nettle -rarpd -rdisc -static -tftpd -tracepath -traceroute6" 0 KiB

[fedeliallalinea]

See https://github.com/iputils/iputils/issues/293

[bagas]

See https://github.com/iputils/iputils/issues/293

ipv6 is used by few people.
It is wrong to do ipv6 by default.
Directly as they impose ipv6!