Re: dns interceptors

[Bill Thompson <Billt () Mahagonny com>]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:32:33 -0500
Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net> wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2010, at 5:15 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > i just lost ten minutes debugging what i thought was a server
> > problem which turned out to be a dns trapper on the wireless in the
> > changi sats lounge.  this is not the first time i have been caught
> > by this.
> >
> > what are other roaming folk doing about this?
> >
> > randy
>
> I typically VPN out of broken networks whenever possible.
>
> Operate a VPN/PPTP/IPSEC/squid-proxy/ssh on tcp/80/443 to work around
> the issues.
>
> - Jared

Yep, this is what I do as well. It's a little disappointing that you
have to tunnel into a trusted network in order to prevent shenanigans
like that, but it seems to be the way things are.

-- 
Bill Thompson
BillT () Mahagonny com

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