Hi Javier, On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:07:19PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > I've recently asked our DSA team to create a new network-test.debian.org > service (See [rt.debian.org #4756) to be able to script tests of network > connectivity with a stable service. > > Originally I intended this service to improve the 'network-test' script in the > ifupdown-extra package, however, in light of the new Network-Manager > capability > to check connectivity status, I think it can be useful for network-manager > users too. > > The service is now running and it is a static Virtual Host distributed along > several Debian-managed machines with IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity. > > Specifically for Network-Manager, based on NetworkManager.conf(5), I've setup > a > URL for network connectivity tests which is now alive and running as you can > see here: > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > $ echo -e "GET /nm HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: network-test.debian.org\r\nConnection: > close\r\n\r\n" | nc network-test.debian.org 80 > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:52:46 GMT > Server: Apache > Last-Modified: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 16:28:43 GMT > ETag: "1019d211-19-4eb4dcee584c0" > Accept-Ranges: bytes > Content-Length: 25 > X-NetworkManager-Status: online > Connection: close > Content-Type: text/plain > > NetworkManager is online > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I would appreciate if you would consider: > > a) testing this service and see if it suits Network-Manager's requirements > b) changin Network-Manager in order to add the following when creating a new > managed connection: > > ------------------------------------------ > [connectivity] > uri=http://network-test.debian.org/nm > ------------------------------------------ > > That way, when our Debian users setup a network connection they can test that > it has full end-to-end connectivity and will be able to detect the following > situations: > > - systems connected to cable connections which receive an DHCP assignment but > are not fully connected to the Internet - as is the case with corporate > connections which have network firewalls in place which require the use of > network proxies for Internet access > > - systems connected to hotspots using WiFi which can connect and get a > DHCP assignment but are forced to go through a captive portal before > Internet > access is granted (common use case for public/hotel WiFi hotspots) > > Please let me know if you need help in implementing the above changes. I'm not > familiar enough with Network-Managers' codebase to produce a patch, but could > try to work on it if assistance is needed.
Thanks a lot for getting this service setup. I'm a bit worried to enable such a feature by default though since this is some kind of privacy breach. This should be enabled explicitly by the administrator. I'm considering adding a short section to README.Debian about connectivity checking and/or add it to NetworkManager.conf but commented out. Would that suffice for you? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
