Apinger does not want to start

hi all,
Does the APINGER application working for you? I don’t know if it is due to the switch to TurrisOS >=v.6.x (probably since then), but I am not able to start it.

Init scripts end on exporting of network settings:

 bash -x /etc/init.d/apinger start
+ START=80
+ USE_PROCD=1
+ BIN=/usr/sbin/apinger
+ APINGER_RRD=/apinger/rrd
+ . /lib/functions/network.sh
root@turris:~#

manual start of the apinger application ends up giving me the following error:

root@turris:~# apinger -d -c /etc/apinger.conf
[Nov 10 21:13:42] No source IP defined for target "8.8.8.8".
[Nov 10 21:13:42] Couldn't read config ("/etc/apinger.conf").
root@turris:~#

I also see no reason why it should not be able to read config

# ll "/etc/apinger.conf"
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          1536 Nov  9 21:01 /etc/apinger.conf

the reason for using the apinger application is to monitor the Internet connection:
Monitoring WAN status on OpenWRT using Alarm Pinger