[58806] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SLC Sheraton wireless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (LaMont Jones)
Sun Jun 1 16:21:39 2003
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 14:18:36 -0600
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Cc: LaMont Jones <lamont@hp.com>,
Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030601201413.9BA0D7B4D@berkshire.research.att.com>
From: lamont@hp.com (LaMont Jones)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 04:14:13PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Ah, STSN. I've had to hack dhclient because some of their servers
> (encountered often in Marriotts) emit options that are sufficiently
> invalid to cause dhclient to discard the packets.
My favorite was the STSN-in-room box crashing when presented with an NS
RR query for the root. Took a while to figure out that it was crashing
(and rebooting - 15-20 sec outage) everytime the nameserver on the laptop
tried (unsuccessfully) to prime it's cache.
lamont
