> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] De la part de
> Simon Perreault
> Envoyé : jeudi 22 décembre 2011 15:05
> À : Ted Lemon
> Cc : <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Objet : Re: [mif] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC6418 (3057)
> 
> On 2011-12-21 19:23, Ted Lemon wrote:
> > Isn't this talking about captive portals? If so, then *after*
> authentication you
> > get unmodified DNS and HTTP; before authentication, you get forged
> DNS responses
> > that force you to the captive portal.
> 
> Just for the sake of discussion...
> 
> Captive portals that modify DNS responses are exceedingly rare.
> Usually, captive
> portals work by NATing the destination address of packets emitted from
> clients
> having an unauthenticated link-layer addresses. 

I'm not an expert in captive portals but I think NAT based solution is as rare 
as DNS based :-) Captive portal are usually based on HTTP redirection.

Pierrick

The reason, I presume,
> is that
> DNS responses get cached by the OS and/or application, so sending
> "wrong" DNS
> responses to clients just doesn't work well.
> 
> Simon
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