[120001] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Timmins)
Mon Dec 7 18:29:41 2009
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:28:41 -0500
From: Paul Timmins <paul@telcodata.us>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <3512DFEB-431F-4EDB-A8DB-7ACC04FF7A43@puck.nether.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jared Mauch wrote:
> The University of Michigan Hospitals have a guestnet wireless that is ghetto and blocks
> IMAP over SSL. Attempts to get them to correct this have fallen on deaf ears. I can't even
> VPN out to work around the sillyness, which typically works in other hotel/guestnet scenarios.
>
> Providers to avoid: US Signal Corporation. (64.141.138.226 was my natted IP in a Hampton Inn depsite whois/swip).
>
> - Jared
>
I'm pretty sure that's the hotel doing the blocking, USS isn't the type
to enforce anything specific like that that I've found as they're a
wholesaler and blocking that stuff tends to annoy those who are
whiteboxing their product.
They definitely don't do anything like that on their transit links.
-Paul
