Best way to check if there is internet?

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 12:20, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>
> 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.  ;-)
>

Definitely possible. Though wouldn't a rocket scientist call it
"store-and-prograde"? :)

ChrisA