I think that this kind of indication about the reachability of the wider "internet" is quite useful. It's one thing to be connected to a network, which is what you want quite often, but I also think it is even more likely that you want to be connected to the internet via a particular network or access point.
Such an indication is useful IMHO. On 4/2/08, Martin Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your reply, > > > - The status of my network connection has nothing to do with whether the > > network I'm connected to can access google.com (or any other arbitrary > > domain). Networks without internet connectivity are as valid a use case > > an any other. > > In parlance I agree, it's technically more accurate to display network > connection only. And yet the lack of any notifier to the common non > technical user does loose valuable information about what they're > concerned about: namely weather they are on the internet or not. I > would argue that have a robust notifier of internet connectivity would > be in keeping with the general network manager ethos of keeping things > simple of strait forward for the users. > > > - What do you mean by "google.com is really google.com"? That it > > resolves to a known IP, or block of IPs? That you can connect to it via > > HTTP, and that the result looks like it should? Note that if I connect > > to 'google.com', it actually HTTP redirects me twice, first to > > 'www.google.com', and then to 'www.google.co.nz'. Not to mention the > > proxy that HTTP traffic has to go through... > > 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. > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
