Reporting/fixing broken airport/hotel/etc wifi?

Christopher Morrow morrowc.lists at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 20:52:05 UTC 2017


Yea, I was able to get around the broken-ness with openvpn, but.. that's
sad :( and not everyone has that capability.

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've found many times it's the other way around, with highly restrictive
> captive portals that only allow traffic to 80 and 443. This is exactly the
> reason why I have an OpenVPN server running in tcp mode (not udp) on 443.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Christopher Morrow <
> morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Was there a list of folks collecting to provide fix actions for
>> hotel/airport/etc?
>>
>> Seems that IAD / Washington Dulles don't like "random" tcp/443 sites on
>> the
>> internet?  173.194.205.129
>>
>> for instance, ping, traceroute, http but no https :(
>> https works just fine from lots of other places on the tubes... just not
>> the dulles wifi.
>>
>> -chris
>>
>
>



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