Jeff Abrahamson on 9 Apr 2004 00:51:03 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] wireless networks, web browsing, and forced pages


On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 08:04:00PM -0400, sean finney wrote:
> 1) stub dns servers.  basically, you pool clients into two categories
>    (based on mac addresses typically).  the dhcp server gives the known
>    clients the standard network configuration, and gives the unknown
>    clients the same info except for the dns server, which is a different
>    machine (or bind view for the bind9 servers) that resolves all ns
>    queries to a single address.  so no matter where you go, you get
>    their page and have to register/pay/authenticate/whatever.  of course,
>    for the l33t h4x0rz this is easy to circumvent.

How?  Even if you point to a different DNS server, you still have to
pass through their router, which could block your DNS packets.

-- 
 Jeff

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