Best way to check if there is internet?

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Feb 7 20:18:54 EST 2022


On 2/7/22 4:27 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
 > On 8/02/22 8:51 am, Chris Angelico wrote:

 >> Some day, we'll have people on Mars. They won't have TCP connections -
 >> at least, not unless servers start supporting connection timeouts
 >> measured in minutes or hours - but it wouldn't surprise me if some
 >> sort of caching proxy system is deployed.
 >
 > Or the internet acquires a new protocol that's designed
 > for very-long-latency connections.

RocketNet -- a massive store-and-forward protocol.  ;-)

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~Ethan~


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