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