iam using gethostbyname for verifing whether net is active or not
it's work fine
but how it's work
i mean whether it is using ping or sending socket,
who it determining the internet .
thank u in advance
sree
If you mean it's checking whether your internet connection in general is working, that works because to look up most hostnames, it has to communicate with a DNS server over the internet. No internet, no name lookup. There are exceptions, of course. Entries in /etc/hosts get looked up from the file without asking a DNS server at all.
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