Am I missing something? this seems trivial.... $ sudo gdb --args ping -c1 google.com ... Reading symbols from ping...(no debugging symbols found).

Am I missing something? this seems trivial.... $ sudo gdb --args ping -c1 google.com ... Reading symbols from ping...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) break bind Breakpoint 1 at 0x2e30 (gdb) run Starting program: /bin/ping -c1 google.com Breakpoint 1, bind () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:78 78 ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S: No such file or directory. (gdb) bt #0 bind () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:78 #1 0x00007fe80c66967c in __check_pf (seen_ipv4=seen_ipv4@entry=0x7ffd63cff8e2, seen_ipv6=seen_ipv6@entry=0x7ffd63cff8e3, in6ai=in6ai@entry=0x7ffd63cff8f0, in6ailen=in6ailen@entry=0x7ffd63cff8f8) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/check_pf.c:326 #2 0x00007fe80c630651 in __GI_getaddrinfo (name=<optimized out>, service=<optimized out>, hints=<optimized out>, pai=0x7ffd63cffdc0) at ../sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c:2354 #3 0x000055c067f89870 in ?? () #4 0x00007fe80c549bf7 in __libc_start_main (main=0x55c067f88ff0, argc=3, argv=0x7ffd63cfff28, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7ffd63cfff18) at ../csu/libc-start.c:310 #5 0x000055c067f89caa in ?? () yes, this is getaddrinfo. If you want to debug more, install the debug packages and play with gdb.