Re: Network Manager Wifi thoughts

["Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart gathman org>]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Fanen A. wrote:

> > If we're talking methods then it could check that the dns ip addresses
> > it's been given are valid, or it could check a number of things. http
> > site availability is just one of them.

How about a query to a root DNS server?  If you can reach DNS, you are 
"on the internet" (even if port 80 is blocked).

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