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This is pretty good for bypassing captive portals on public Wi-Fi access points. Sometimes you can use it to get Internet for free without paying. These days mo
by c7DJTLrn 3y ago
This is pretty good for bypassing captive portals on public Wi-Fi access points. Sometimes you can use it to get Internet for free without paying. These days most are more clever and will block everything other than the default gateway until you sign on.
- ale42 3y agoFour years ago I managed to use it on a plane to read mails over SSH in a terminal. It was so slow I had the impression to be in a spaceship to another planet...
- c7DJTLrn 3y ago:) to be fair SSH doesn't cope well on high latency, high packet loss connections.
- michaelmior 3y agomosh[0] helps a lot in these scenarios. It doesn't actually make your connection any faster, but it does make things feel a lot more responsive. [0] https://mosh.org/ https://mosh.org/
- ale42 3y agoYes at that point I just wished I had the mosh client installed before boarding the plane ;-)
- contravariant 3y agoDon't most of them hijack any DNS traffic to send it to their own portal?
- toast0 3y agoThat's not that typical anymore. For one thing, it poisons the client's dns cache, and it can be hard to go to the actual destination later. For another, if DNS was the access control mechanism, that's pretty weak, many people can figure out how to get around a DNS block. It's more typical now to return the A records, and then route all IPs to a portal server until you login. Logged in sessions get to go forth to the internet.
- contravariant 3y agoAh right, that probably makes more sense. I just noticed they keep messing up HTTPS, but both of those would do that.