Enabling Connectivity Checking in NetworkManager

[Ted Gould]

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 15:11 -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> There are other ways to detect such cases without having the machine
> connect to an external service.
> 
> Someone suggested on IRC to implement a doesnt-exist.ubuntu.com which is
> essentially a record that Canonical would guarantee never to exist in
> the ubuntu.com. zone.
> 
> If you can resolve or even access that host, then you are behind some
> kind of captive portal/proxy.

My standard DSL will resolve every address to Verizon's search engine to
"help me" figure out where I miss typed it.  I think you need some sort
of positive identification unfortunately, negative won't work here.

		--Ted

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