Checking for internet access

[Sarah Reichelt]

Thanks, Andu. That works OK, except that if there is no link, the computer
looks like it has hung for 45 seconds. It stops completely and can't process
any pending messages, even the menubar clock stops.

Is there any way to shorten the timeout interval? The socketTimeOutInterval
has no effect.

Cheers,
Sarah


> Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>> 
>> I thought I had a name :-(
>> 
>> It may be relevant that I am behind a router which allocates me an IP
>> address like 192.168.1.x by DHCP. The router uses NAT to translate the
>> connections single IP address to different addresses on the network. I am
>> assuming that if I had a direct connection, hostName() would give me an
>> answer.
>> 
>> Thanks for trying - I hope someone can come up with an answer.
> 
> I didn't follow this but you can do a host name to address translation
> with any host name:
> get hostnametoaddress("www.runrev.com")
> if the result is empty then put it
> else put the result
> 
>> 
>> Sarah
>> 
>>> that probably means you have no "name".. obviously this works fine for me,
>>> but that doesn't help you ;-)  i'll keep looking into this for you, if
>>> anyone else has any ideas please share..
>>> 
>> 
>>>> This doesn't work for me. After a long delay (long enough to think the
>>>> computer has hung), it returns empty even though I am definitely connected
>>>> at the moment. hostName() by itself is the same.
>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> hostNameToAddress(hostname())
>>>>> 
>>>>> if it's empty, there's no internet connection..
>>>>> 
>> 
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