Re: Captive portal detection on wired connections - bug or feature?

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On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 12:24 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> ----- 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.

It would probably be better (if NM respects it) to add a higher-
numbered file to override it; that way you aren't changing the 
contents of a packaged file.
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