Comment 25 for bug 991481

Yes. I've discussed this with Evan Dandrea a few times in the past, the right way to fix this is by enabling connectivity checking in NetworkManager itself, which can be done with a simple configuration file change in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf (see manual for NetworkManager).

The idea is to point it to a file under start.ubuntu.com which can be polled regularly by NM when connected (every five minutes by default, but this is configurable).

In the past, there has been some pushback on enabling this due to privacy concerns and concerns that the connectivity checking wasn't configurable/reliable enough. It will need to be investigated again, and discussed again on ubuntu-devel@ or somewhere else suitable for broader discussion.

I'm not planning on touching this again in the very near future, so unassigning -- please, anyone want to shepherd this to be completed, feel free to assign it to yourself and start up the dicussion again to see if we can enable connectivity checking. This may be useful for Ubuntu Touch as well.