Looking for dnssec-triggerd alpha testers!

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 22:29 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:27:41AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > right. the big problem is not working around a broken network or a network
> > > with an attacker. The problem is false positives due to the pletora of
> > > hotspot mangling techniques out there. Ideally, NetworkManager would deal with
> > > the whole "hotspot detection" and lift any blocking done by the hotspot pre-login,
> > > and then dnssec-triggerd in some way or shape can deal with the DNS investigation
> > > and caching resolver reconfiguration.
> > > 
> > > For example, the Apple iOS hotspot detection consists of simple trying to fetch:
> > > http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html
> > 
> > There's long notes on how to do this in the TODO file in NM git, just
> > needs the time to implement.  It's essentially what Windows does as
> > well, they just fetch a known URL and compare the result to a known
> > response, and if there isn't a match, you're not connected to the
> > internet.  Various other plugins could check the response for known
> > portal junk (and we can use the various portal auto-login standards like
> > WPAD) to handle portal auto-login if we can.
> 
>   ConnMan (https://lwn.net/Articles/456967/) already has code to detect and login
> on hotspot pages.  Maybe you can just lift code from ConnMan instead of redoing it.

Yeah, it does, but the licenses are incompatible (GPLv2 vs. GPLv2+).

Dan