Sorry, you are totally right. It should say "conncheck" as listed in the excerpt from /var/log/NetworkManager. fred@PC-JURZITZA7:~> curl -I http://conncheck.opensuse.org HTTP/1.0 204 No Content Cache-Control: no-cache X-NetworkManager-Status: online Content-Type: text/plain Connection: Close By any means, curl - sitting behind the proxy - apparently does "the right thing". Take care Dieter Jurzitza