Re: node red, and black is wonky

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Tyler Booth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sounds like your bind is caching the IP of the captive portal in place of
> the ajax site you're expecting to see.
>
> Try flushing your bind cache? The captive portal shouldn't care what DNS
> server you're using.

No my laptop wasn't using the local DNS until I told it to in an
attempt to get around the wonkyness.  I used to have a lot of problems
with the actiontec DSL wireless routers that Qwest gave away for a
long time.  When connecting to one from Linux it would give crazy DNS
results unless you turned off the IPv6 stack for some reason.  So I
had bind running as a backup, but bind wouldn't resolve anything
unless I manually edited /etc/resolv.conf to use it instead of the
nameservers set by DHCP.  So it was wonky before I tried changing to
my own private DNS server as a possible way to fix it.  Bind shouldn't
have cached any DNS records that the captive portal was serving up
unless it has a firewall rule that sucked up DNS requests to the root
nameservers.

It seemed much more like it was randomly turning on a transparent
proxy than playing with DNS records.
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