Re: Reporting/fixing broken airport/hotel/etc wifi?

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

Yea, I was able to get around the broken-ness with openvpn, but.. that's
sad :( and not everyone has that capability.

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com> wrote:

> I've found many times it's the other way around, with highly restrictive
> captive portals that only allow traffic to 80 and 443. This is exactly the
> reason why I have an OpenVPN server running in tcp mode (not udp) on 443.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Christopher Morrow <
> morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Was there a list of folks collecting to provide fix actions for
> > hotel/airport/etc?
> >
> > Seems that IAD / Washington Dulles don't like "random" tcp/443 sites on
> > the
> > internet?  173.194.205.129
> >
> > for instance, ping, traceroute, http but no https :(
> > https works just fine from lots of other places on the tubes... just not
> > the dulles wifi.
> >
> > -chris