Hi Antoine,

could you give me a hint where in the code / in which PM the trapping
and decision what DNS configuration to use takes place?

Thanks,
Till

On 14.07.2016 16:09, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello Antoine,
>
> thank you for your reply.
>
> Our client has several locations using Packetfence, and he wanted a
> centralized server for CP with a customizable CMS. So we are using
> mod_proxy directive in captive-portal-common.tt to forward requests to
> this centralized CP.
>
> We already tested the pass through configuration which works fine. But
> sadly it is not really an option for because this implies that there is
> always access to Facebook, Google, Twitter etc.
> Sadly, most of the login screens of these social networks use the
> www.xxx.com domain name and also refer to a lot of external resources
> for JS, images etc. Because of this it is not possible to disable access
> to Facebook for example in general, but allow access to the login screen
> of facebook. This only could be done with firewall rules on the protocol
> / HTTP level.
>
> So we decided to give the users temporary access to the Internet when
> they decide to get verified by social networks.
>
> I wonder if pfdns and trapping mechanism could be configured to sent the
> right local IP address for CP name resolution and forwards all other
> requests to the external DNS.
>
> Thanks,
> Till
>
>
>
> On 14.07.2016 15:11, Antoine Amacher wrote:
>> Hello Till,
>>
>> I am not sure how your authentication by social media is working but why 
>> not use OAuth2 sources?
>>
>> You could also add any domains you want to authorize to the pass through 
>> list, in this way people will be in the registration VLAN with access to 
>> authorized sites. If you need sites to enable for your social media 
>> access, you can check in the OAuth sources, each have a predefined list.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On 07/14/2016 12:03 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> We wrote our own captive portal, which allows the user to get verified
>>> by social networks. For this reason we give him temporary access first
>>> so he can reach the social network login pages.
>>>
>>> But now we have the problem that he can not be directed back to the
>>> captive portal as long as he as the temporary Internet access. The
>>> reason is that DNS resolution of captive portal (i.e. PF server) does
>>> not work anymore.
>>>
>>> Because we are using a public DNS server, we can not add the captive
>>> portal IP (which is a local one in the LAN) to this DNS.
>>>
>>> Is  there a way to tell Packetfence to continue trapping and resolving
>>> DNS requests of the captive portal's name, as long as we grant temporary
>>> Internet access to the user?
>>> This would solve our problem.
>>>
>>> Or is there another way to resolve the PF name without using a local DNS?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Till
>>>
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