mehranagh20 / am-i-online

A service which notifies you of changes in your internet connectivity and DNS resolution.

Introduction

A Daemon which notifies you of changes in your internet connectivity and DNS resolution,
am i online is designed to solve the problem of pinging IPs and browsing web pages just to know if you are connected to internet and DNS is working as it suppesed to. why should you care?

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It only takes some seconds to get am i online to work. Use it now.

Why to use am i online?

We have all experienced wondering if we are connected to internet or just if we got back online, am i online tries to solve this problem by notifying you of sudden changes in you connectivity or DNS resolution.
The idea behind it is simple and efficient, see documentation.

by using am i online:

• In case of disconnection from internet with any reason, you'll be just notified.
• To find out if you are disconnected, you do not need to ping an ip address or browse a website, you'll be just notified.
• To see if you are back online, you do not need to ping an ip address or browse a website once a while, that is so annoying, you'll be just notified.
• If you get problem with DNS resolution, you'll be just notified.
• As soon as DNS resolution problem seems to be fixed, you'll be just notified.
• You will not get your hands dirty by running anything to get am i online working, it is just a service, it will do its job without your concern. get it to work.

Dependencies

will hold necessary things to have to get am i online to work.

Installation

linux:

git clone https://github.com/mehranagh20/am-i-online.git
cd am-i-online
chmod +x install.sh amionline.sh
sudo ./install.sh --install # nothing but configuring a service requires root permission so do not worry :)
# Install script will do all things necessary to get am i online working.

mac:

Under Development.

on windows:

Install linux alongisde windows or just remove it and install linux (latter is prefered).
Follow the Installation on linux and mac above :).

Documentation

will hold documentation of how to personalize am i online

Contribution

Any contribution will be welcomed :). In case of any problem with anything submit an issue.

Author

:)

Licence

MIT license, copyright (c) 2017 Mehran Aghabozorgi.

am-i-online's Issues

Notify after being sure that disconnection occurred.

Add support for mac OS.

mac service manager seems to be sth called launchctl :|

Specify appropriate Icons for notify-send.

Write a script to install and set necessary Env variables automatically based on user.

Make the script a systemd service.

Documentation and specification.

Notify after being sure we got back online after disconnection.

Notify if we are connected to internet but DNS is not working.

Notify if connected but DNS can not resolve URL.