Re: different icons if internet is available

[dragoran <drago01 gmail com>]

Nikolaus Filus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yelo_3 wrote:
>   
> > I've implemented the most code, except the function that decides if internet is available or not.
> > In fact I'm thinking of this problem.
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439310
> > an isolated network access cannot of course reach the most internet locations
> >
> > we could discuss on this... for instance in might be:
> > internet on if ubuntu.com and gnome.org are reachable
> > otherwise internet off.
> >
> > Of course it is not a complete solution, it is only a try.
> >     
>
> what do you mean by "gnome.org is reachable" - is it, if you can
> 1) dns lookup www.gnome.org
> 2) ICMP echo www.gnome.org
> 3) http connect www.gnome.org
>   
and what if gnome.org is down?