broken DNS proxying at public wireless hotspots

Sat Feb 3 07:00:29 UTC 2007

Thus spake "Trent Lloyd" <lathiat at bur.st>
> One thing I have noticed to be unfortunately more common that I would
> like is routers that misunderstand IPv6 AAAA requests and return an
> A record of 0.0.0.1
>
> So if you are using (for the most part) anything other than windows, 
> or
> Windows Vista, this may be related to what you are seeing.

The same is true if you've enabled IPv6 on XP.  Unfortunately, it's hard 
to find a hotel network these days that _doesn't_ break when presented 
with AAAA queries.

I'm hoping that the flood of support calls from Vista users will 
pressure them to get their systems fixed, but I'm not holding my breath. 
They'll probably just make "disable IPv6" part of their standard 
troubleshooting routine, just like telling you to reboot your PC.  After 
all, nobody uses it, right?

S

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