Captive portal detection on wired connections - bug or feature?

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Thu Mar 26 16:24:13 UTC 2015



----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 10:52 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 10:45 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 21:02 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > > > This was most likely caused by some issues with out proxy servers this
> > > > evening. We were adding 3 new proxy servers into the rotation and there
> > > > were some config issues with some of them. ;(
> > > > 
> > > > This would have only affected some folks in North America sporadically,
> > > > (when they happened to hit a proxy that wasn't working right) not
> > > > everyone.
> > > > 
> > > > Sorry this happened, everything should be back to normal now.
> > > 
> > > I think it would make sense to do a second ping to some other server if
> > > the first one to fedoraproject.org fails, for robustness. Maybe to
> > > redhat.com, or something that should never be down like google.com (my
> > > vote), or to someplace that promises not to track users, like
> > > duckduckgo.com (hardly matters much for a connectivity check?).
> > 
> > We could always use the Google servers that Android uses by default,
> > instead of Fedora :)  Those would be pretty well guaranteed to be up...
> 
> You might use both so you have less chances of false positive, but
> *please* make it uninstallable, or easily disableable.

You can edit /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity-fedora.conf to disable it.


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