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Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)
From: Stephen Sprunk <stephen () sprunk org>
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:41:54 -0600
Jens Link wrote:
Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> writes:I expect my connections to my mail server to actually reach my mail server. I use TLS and SMTP AUTH as well as IMAP/SSL. Many of the "just works" settings in question break these things badly.One of my customers has an appliance for his WLAN guest access access which filters out AAAA records. :-( jens@bowmore:~$ dig AAAA www.quux.de @8.8.8.8 +short jens@bowmore:~$
That, unfortunately, is not uncommon. Actually, it's one of the _less_ broken systems I've seen, since IPv4 presumably keeps working. One major vendor of hotel guestnet equipment returns an A record for 0.0.0.1 if you do an ANY or AAAA query for any hostname--even ones that don't exist. At least with WinXP, you have to disable IPv6 just to get IPv4 to work! Worse, their tech support sees nothing wrong with this; if you disagree, all they'll do is offer a refund. Unfortunately, "take your money elsewhere" doesn't work when you've already paid for the hotel room--and they know it. S -- Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
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- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style), (continued)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) sthaug (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Mark Andrews (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Andrew Cox (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Owen DeLong (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Andrew Cox (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Owen DeLong (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Jens Link (Dec 09)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Owen DeLong (Dec 09)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) - path asumption bmanning (Dec 09)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) - path asumption Christopher Morrow (Dec 09)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Stephen Sprunk (Dec 09)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Owen DeLong (Dec 09)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Joe Greco (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Andrew Cox (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Mark Andrews (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Leo Bicknell (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Seth Mattinen (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Joe Abley (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Tony Finch (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Sean Donelan (Dec 08)
- Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style) Owen DeLong (Dec 08)