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surfisup1000

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#258513 7-Oct-2019 22:49
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I use my routers time blocking function to disable internet access on my kids PC at night time (PC connected via ethernet cable). 

 

The win10 network tray icon changes to show no internet access after the router blocks the internet,. 

 

But when the internet is reconnected,  the tray icon still shows that the internet as unavailable . A bunch of apps (eg, outlook) don't work because they say there is no internet, even though the internet is working just fine. 

 

I made a batch command to disable / enable the network interface, but this is manual. Does anyone have a more elegant solution or fix? Driver updates don't work, this seems to be a bug in win10 where the OS doesn't refresh the internet status on wired connections. 

 

 


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  #2332286 7-Oct-2019 23:15
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You soon realise when you have customers log jobs to say 'the network isn't working'. And you show up and open google to find it's fine. And ask what wasn't going to alert them to raise the job, And the answer is 'the icon says no internet'

 

You soon realise how useless the indicator is (and how much people need to test more than an icon for diagnosis) :)

 

It is a simple periodic ping/connection test to a microsoft server. And if it can't reach it due to a DNS block or similar, it'll say.

 

issuing a standard  DNS query to www.msftncsi.com, followed by a HTTP get request to the http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt file (a plain text file) and, finally, another DNS query to dns.msftncsi.com.

 

There are some DNS workarounds - https://www.ryadel.com/en/yellow-triangle-over-network-connection-status-how-to-fix-it/

 

 


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