On 31.08.2014, bitlord wrote:
There is a new feature introduced in Gnome and NetworkManager which
allows 'Captive Portal'[1] services to work. This may be useful feature
for some users (that is why it is implemented), but most users won't use
it, and it pings fedora servers every '300seconds'
Thanks a lot for bringing this to our attention. Although F21 is not
a final release, it will be some day, and I'm glad you reported it
here. I think most of the subscribers here are not subscribed to any
development list..
At the moment users aren't aware of this feature, and most users
probably never will find it working in the background, but I think it
shouldn't be enable by default silently
[....]
You're absolutely right. I'm perfectly clear that F21 is still under
development, and this behaviour thus can be changed for the final
release. Nevertheless, silently introducing a constant pinger will
make me frustrated if this will be the standard behaviour in F21
final.
From now on, I'll monitor future Fedora releases via external
hardware
for all suspicious or unwanted traffic. Such behaviour is absolutely
unacceptable to me.