Thanks for that script!

I found albert.apple.com is the DNS request the iPhone makes when trying to
activate today. Resolves to one IP in Akamai's CDN network from our campus.
Will give that a shot today.

--Britton

BTW Hunter, nice sweep for your Chargers hockey team last weekend! ;)



Britton Anderson <[email protected]> | Senior Network Communications
Specialist | University of Alaska <http://www.alaska.edu/oit> | 907.450.8250

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Hunter Fuller <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can run this to get Google IP ranges. Thanks to Todd Swatling of
> Vassar for this.
>
> dig +noall +answer TXT _netblocks.google.com _netblocks2.google.com
> _netblocks3.google.com | cut -d'"' -f2 | tr ' ' '\n' | grep ^ip | sed
> 's/ip[4-6]://g'
>
>
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> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Britton Anderson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > These devices prompt for a wireless network during the activation
> process,
> > but won't let a webauth succeed.
> >
> > I like Hunter's idea of adding the Apple/Google/Antivirus sites to the
> > pre-webauth ACL. Cisco WLC's won't let you use DNS names for ACL entries,
> > d'oh! Is there a known list of these hosts somewhere before I go sniffing
> > wireless traffic?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Britton
> >
> >
> >
> > Britton Anderson | Senior Network Communications Specialist | University
> of
> > Alaska | 907.450.8250
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Mike King <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Maybe I'm over simplifying this, but for the "average" user, don't those
> >> devices have to be activated BEFORE you can see the settings screen?
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Hunter Fuller <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> This is what we do. While not authenticated to wireless you can still
> get
> >>> to a few places - Microsoft, apple, Google search, antivirus vendors.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Hunter Fuller
> >>> OIT
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my phone.
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 8, 2015 5:11 PM, "Frank Sweetser" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> We already have an unencrypted ssid for students to get to our
> >>>> onboarding system (Cloudpath). Our plan for this summer is to poke
> enough
> >>>> firewall holes for students to also run through the device activation
> >>>> process. If we were to try to impose any kind of device security
> policies,
> >>>> we would do it in the onboarding process.
> >>>>
> >>>> On January 8, 2015 5:54:01 PM EST, Britton Anderson
> >>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I just wanted to ask the question to see what all of you are doing at
> >>>>> your institutions to handle users activating new devices. New iOS
> devices
> >>>>> for example have to reach out to iCloud to validate themselves and
> make sure
> >>>>> they're not stolen. Android now with version 5 is very similar,
> having to
> >>>>> reach out to the mothership and join to a Google account.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Are any of you doing an "SSID-Activate" WLAN, or requiring clients to
> >>>>> bring it by your respective Help Desks for activation?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Right now, we are requiring anyone that wants a device activated to
> >>>>> have our Desktop techs touch it and give them pointers to secure it.
> >>>>> However, we've lost some budget, and some employees, and they can't
> keep a
> >>>>> guy in the office to handle that influx of people anymore. And I
> don't want
> >>>>> the headache of a wide open WLAN everywhere, and none of the devices
> will
> >>>>> allow the webauth transaction to happen before the device ! is
> activated.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> --Britton
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Britton Anderson | Senior Network Communications Specialist |
> >>>>> University of Alaska | 907.450.8250
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