On Monday 30 June 2008 02:47:38 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:13:09 +0200 Holger Freyther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> to know if you have a usable network that can actually access repositories. > you can only know reliably by trying. just because you have an ip address > assigned doesn't mean your network works (you hay have massive packet loss > or no signal, you may have connected to a private internal network that > doesn't route out to the internet etc.). you may have a firewall or proxy > in the way too. no way i know of at least to know if you can get out and > connect to a particular location without actually trying. :) Sure, but how is assassin trying to connect with CURL any better than opkg trying to connect with CURL? If I change the opkg config files (to download from another repository) I do not want assassin to call home. E.g. I removed the bogus DNS entry in our "interfaces" so resolving a hostname should fail rather quickly... z.
