Rick Moen said: >The above is a vexing problem for travelers w/laptops who prefer to >specify their own choice of nameserver and still use hotel/motel WiFi >(and wired ethernet, actually). Best case, you have to disable your >nameserver IP override long enough to navigate the captive portal, and >then can put the override back. But, no, you cannot just leave your >choice of nameserver IPs in place (without disappointment).
This is good information. I've sometimes wondered why I couldn't log in at the library or Macdonalds. I imagine it would be trivial to make a shellscript to alternate between immutable dns at my current ip address's unbound server, and the resolv.conf given me by the hotel. I never before knew the mechanism by which hotels and libraries and McDonalds pushed that login screen on me when I tried to go to Troubleshooters.Com. By the way, for a travelling notebook, I wouldn't be all that offended with a mutable resolv.conf. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
