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Comment by patmorgan23

11 hours ago

Why not ping 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 or time.windows.com? Things that are actually designed to be highly available services

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ceejayoz  10 hours ago

Is there any reason to believe captive.apple.com is any less "designed to be highly available" than time.windows.com?

It's a static page that every Apple device relies on saying only:

  <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Success</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>Success</BODY></HTML>

  • mixdup  9 hours ago

    The only risk is that Apple hasn't announced it as being reliable or promised to keep it up or the format the same in any way. They could 100% pull it out from under everyone, with modifications in their OSes prepared for the change

encom  8 hours ago

1.1 is enough.

  ~$ ping -c1 1.1
  PING 1.1 (1.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 1.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=7.89 ms
  
  --- 1.1 ping statistics ---
  1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 7.888/7.888/7.888/0.000 ms