How to use reachability class to detect valid internet connection?

Question

I\'m new to iOS development and am struggling to get the reachability.h class to work. Here is my code for view controller:

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Answer 1

Update: Nov 4 2013

Using Reachability 3.0 version on iOS7

To build on top of @NR4TR and @codecaffeine's answers:

There are 5 ways to do this (not compiled :)

#include 
#include 

//1 - Is www.apple.com reachable?
Reachability *rHostName = [Reachability reachabilityWithHostName:@"www.apple.com"];
NetworkStatus s1 = [rHostName currentReachabilityStatus];

//2 - Is local wifi router or access point reachable?
Reachability *rLocalWiFi = [Reachability reachabilityForLocalWiFi];
NetworkStatus s2 = [rLocalWiFi currentReachabilityStatus];

//3 - Is my access point connected to a router and the router connected to the internet?
Reachability *rConnection = [Reachability reachabilityForInternetConnection];
NetworkStatus s3 = [rConnection currentReachabilityStatus];

//4  IPv4 standard addresses checking instead of host to avoid dns lookup step
struct sockaddr_in saIPv4;
inet_pton(AF_INET, "74.125.239.51", &(saIPv4.sin_addr));
saIPv4.sin_len = sizeof(saIPv4);
saIPv4.sin_family = AF_INET;
Reachability *rIPv4 = [Reachability reachabilityWithAddress:&saIPv4];
NetworkStatus s4 = [rIPv4 currentReachabilityStatus];

//5  IPv6 addresses checking instead of host to avoid dns lookup step
struct sockaddr_in saIPv6;
inet_pton(AF_INET, "2607:f8b0:4010:801::1014", &(saIPv6.sin_addr));
saIPv6.sin_len = sizeof(saIPv6);
saIPv6.sin_family = AF_INET;
Reachability *rIPv6 = [Reachability reachabilityWithAddress:&saIPv6];
NetworkStatus s5 = [rIPv6 currentReachabilityStatus];

Handling status is same

if (ReachableViaWiFi == s1)
    return @"WiFi"; //@"WLAN"

if (ReachableViaWWAN == s1)
    return @"Cellular"; //@"WWAN"

return @"None";