RE: [PHP] Checking for internet connection.
| From: | Bob McConnell | Date: | Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:16:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Checking for internet connection. | ||
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From: Andy Shellam
>>
>> I'm confused... what's the problem with just trying to hit
>> the update server? If you can then you check for updates, if
>> not then you, erm, don't. Simples, no?
>
> True, I think I said this same thing in a previous post - I
> suggested the DNS option if all the OP wanted to do was check
> if an Internet connection was there.
And I was pointing out that this would not be a valid test when there is
a caching DNS on the LAN.
Too much of the conversation and most of the attribution was stripped
too early for this to be coherent.
Bob McConnell