On 9 May 2014 17:57, Neuer User <auslands...@gmx.de> wrote: > Seems, I am not the only one wondering why connman phones home:
The "ask the author" approach works quite well. The hostname it's looking up is connman.net. This is the captive portal detection: pretty much every major platform does something similar and it's to detect the situation that you have something that looks like a network connection, but actually you're not routed anywhere (i.e. you're in a hotel and need to pay for connectivity). ConnMan makes a trivial request to it's home page and if it gets back the response it was expecting you have internet, captive portals tend to include machine-readable links in the response that ConnMan will tell the UI to open. If you've ever joined an iOS (and probably Android, but I've not got one) device to a hotel's wifi and seen a login page open immediately the same you've seen this behaviour in action. The response also includes some basic geo-ip so your machine knows roughly where it is, useful for automatic timezone updating. Ross -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto