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I had a lazy fix for a down detection on my RPi server at home, it was pinging a domain I owned and if it couldn't hit that assumed it wasn't connected to a network/rebooted itself. I let the domain lapse and this RPi kept going down around 5 minutes... thought it was a power fault, then I remembered about that CRON job.



That's why everyone else is lazy and just ping google.com




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