Re: ping 64.233.207.8?

[Neal Hogan <nealhogan%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 10/3/11, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 08:47:04AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
>> I guess I should have asked is there anything else that I can do
>> besides yelling at my "reasonably" price ISP ;-)
>
> The ping test just is a sanity check, mostly for historical values. If we
> get network configuration via dhcp we should actually skip the test.
>
> If the ping test fails, and sysinst does not allow you to insist and use
> the values anyway, I would call that a bug (and in this case please file
> a PR).
>

I thank all those who replied . . . Martin was right about
"insist[ing]" that the install go ahead as if there is a web
connection. I insisted and so far so good ;-)

The one thing I am wondering about is the sanity of such a "sanity
check," if such an issue, like mine, arises. Is my issue not common?