[poky] [PATCH] conf/distro/poky.conf: use google.com for connectivity check

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Jan 28 02:16:11 PST 2016


On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 09:17 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 28 January 2016 at 07:58, Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com>
> wrote:
> > Sorry, but google.com is nearly unreachable in China as the reason
> > you may know.
> > 
> > How about 8.8.8.8 which is OK ?
> > 
> That's a good point which I should have thought of.  I'm surprised
> the Great Firewall lets 8.8.8.8 through, but as this check uses the
> fetcher there needs to be a HTTP URL it can open and 8.8.8.8 doesn't
> respond to HTTP.

Note that we specifically put an https:// test in here too as we've had
issues with that before :(

Cheers,

Richard


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