Vera polling yahoo and google to check "Alive"

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When checking my logs today, my eye caught the “InternetOk.log”
When reading it, it states that Vera checks internet connectivity against sites like Yahoo.com and Google.com

[33;1mInternetOk got 1 for google.com (http://74.125.79.147/) 33;1mInternetOk got 1 for yahoo.com (http://69.147.125.65/)

Now if Vera calles home to mios.com (http://66.36.248.238) or
cp.mios.com (http://209.160.30.123) i would understand that, but why google or yahoo (besides these pages being up 99.9%)

It would make more sense (also securitywise!) to use MCS owned IP addresses right?

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Isn’t that the answer?

3

Isn’t that the answer?[/quote]

That might have been a consideration, but still… question remains, is that the most sensible and secure choice?

4

Same here

02 07/06/13 17:20:07.917 e[33;1mInternetOk got 1 for google.come[0m <0x2b0f5460>
02 07/06/13 17:20:10.120 e[33;1mInternetOk got 1 for yahoo.come[0m <0x2b0f5460>
02 07/06/13 17:20:10.120 e[33;1mInternetOk IP’s: 173.194.34.34/98.138.253.109e[0m <0x2b0f5460>
02 07/06/13 17:21:20.020 e[33;1mInternetOk got 1 for google.come[0m <0x2b104460>
02 07/06/13 17:21:22.223 e[33;1mInternetOk got 1 for yahoo.come[0m <0x2b104460>
02 07/06/13 17:21:22.223 e[33;1mInternetOk IP’s: 173.194.40.99/206.190.36.45e[0m <0x2b104460>
02 07/06/13 18:21:24.170 e[33;1mInternetOk got 1 for google.come[0m <0x2b94f460>
02 07/06/13 18:21:26.374 e[33;1mInternetOk got 1 for yahoo.come[0m <0x2b94f460>
02 07/06/13 18:21:26.374 e[33;1mInternetOk IP’s: 173.194.40.201/206.190.36.45e[0m <0x2b94f460>

Reading this thread does not seems to explain the reason to exchange with Yahoo and google ?
So what is the reason ?

Thanks in advance.

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For internet connectivity tests, it’s not unusual to test against something that:

a) has a high uptime AND;
b) is widely distributed across the internet (geo-IP)

Without specific knowledge of your ISP, or manual configuration, there aren’t too many things that meet the criteria.

When an iPhone goes onto a WiFi Network, for example, it “calls” www.apple.com… which will trigger the WiFi auth page if you’re on a captured portal (auth-required) setup. This is no different, except it gives up less information (just an IP address)

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Thanks for the clarification
:wink: