On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:58:51PM -0800, h a wrote:
> I am writing a small linux application and at some point i want to know if
> the user is hooked to the internet. how can i tell if the user has internet
> access at the moment ????
Why do you need to know -- what does the application do? Pinging a known
host on the internet restricts the app to use on the internet, and not any
other network, which is probably a bad idea. The best thing is probably just
to try to connect to the resource you need to use, with appropriate timeouts
implemented.
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