On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 20:20 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 16.05.11 18:44, Ross Burton (r...@burtonini.com) wrote: > > > > > On 16 May 2011 18:22, Lennart Poettering <mzta...@0pointer.de> wrote: > > > conmann also does geoloc? Is there something it doesn't do? Sounds > > > almost as crazy as systemd ;-) > > > > AFAIK (and I may be wrong), but that's part of its "am I really > > online" ping to connman.net, which acts as a captive portal detection. > > The response packet contains a continent, or something. > > Oh my. Conmann phones home? This gets more and more interesting...
No, it's to check whether the internet is available. I believe NetworkManager does something similar, so that when you're connected to a hotel/pub Wi-Fi, all your online things don't say "Hey, I'm online, give me web page" and they all end up being login pages. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list