[120042] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Tue Dec 8 12:08:22 2009
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:07:17 -0800
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <200912080539.nB85dMHD003129@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/07/2009 09:39 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
>>>> Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
>> "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
>> won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CN
>> N)
>> With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
>>
>
> This really should be a DHCP option which points to the authentification
> server using ip addresses. This should be return to clients even
> if they don't request it. Web browers could have a hot-spot button that
> retrieves this option then connects using the value returned.
>
> No need to compromise the DNS or intercept http.
A DHCP option that ultimately charges my credit card?
::shudder::
Mike
