Quoting Simon McVittie (2015-08-30 17:41:32) > On 30/08/15 16:18, Philipp Kern wrote: >> FWIW, it is possible to heuristically detect iPhones and Android >> devices that offer tethering and to discard WWAN connections. But I'm >> not sure if we have a framework on Linux now that would offer an >> answer to the question if you're currently on a bandwidth limited >> connection (i.e. a Freedesktop DBUS interface, I presume). > > (I do not have an answer to that.) > >> Or even noconnectivity at all (which at least Android and Windows >> actively check for using a call-home mechanism.) > > Both NetworkManager and ConnMan are able to do that, although I don't > know whether that's enabled in Debian. In both cases I think the "am I > online?" URL is configurable, defaulting to one provided by unstable, > but distributors are able to change the default; for instance I think > Fedora configure their NM packages to try a Fedora-hosted URL instead.
dnssec-trigger makes such check, enabled in Debian. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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