Hi,
My devious self is wondering if each computer can have an active TCP > connection to a specific address, like connected.ubuntu.com, with TCP > keepalives at a high interval (maybe 10 seconds). You don't have the > overhead of constantly opening and closing connections, but you do have the > overhead of actually keeping millions of connections open on the server. > > This addresses none of the privacy concerns, of course, but it does give > near immediate notification when the network has died, no matter how you > get your connection. > I am not very involved in this discussion or its goals. However, here is what Chrome does when it checks whether it is really connected to a network or not. You might find it useful to see what evil things ISPs and such may try to do with your connection: https://mikewest.org/2012/02/chrome-connects-to-three-random-domains-at-startup -- Mikko Ohtamaa http://opensourcehacker.com
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