Captive portal detection on wired connections - bug or feature?

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Thu Mar 26 02:26:56 UTC 2015


On Wed, 25 Mar 2015, Adam Williamson wrote:

> Lots of people have been seeing it, it may be related to some issues
> with the Fedora infrastructure this afternoon (the check works by
> trying to contact a Fedora server).

I've seen them regularly in the last few hours but I'm on hotel wifi,
so it could also be just crappy wifi.

The dnsec-trigger package which I'm also running also has hotspot
detection, using http://hotspot-nocache.fedoraproject.org/ which
does not seem to cause tehse false positives.

Paul


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