On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:09 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 01:51 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > Seems like a weird assumption for programs to make. Having a wifi link > > doesn't imply internet access either. Maybe there should be a seperate > > daemon which keeps track of the level of connectivity, eg. ping > > google.com to verify connectivity to the internet. > > Yes, it doesn't seem a sane presumption. But I don't see the need to > ping Google. If your IM client can't connect to its server, it's > probably offline. Contrariwise, if your mail client can connect to its > mail server, then that's all it needs to know. It doesn't matter > whether internet access is there, as well. It just needs access to what > it needs to use (e.g. your mailserver could be local). Yah, ping google isn't the best of test. All programs need to know is that there is at least one network device that is active, real/virtual. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
