On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 12:00:43PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 10:14:25AM -0500, Aric Stewart wrote:
> > This implements InternetCheckConnection. Because i cannot do it properly
> > i had to use a kludge where i call ping via a system call. Explanation
> > as well as the way i wanted to to the ping are in the code.
>
> I have doubts about this is being a good idea.
>
> pinging www.ibm.net? Not a good idea, this can be considered a denail of
> service attack. Imagine an application doing
Well, he could just have used www.codeweavers.com.
That way he'd have avoided many possible legal problems ;->
OK, that wasn't too helpful, but I just *had* to mention this <g>
Andreas Mohr
