Connecting to public wifi hotspots

[JD]

Why don't you cut to the chase.
Take your Ubuntu 12.10 (updated as of say 3 weeks ago), to
a Starbuck's hotspot and see if your FF will display Starbuck's
login web page. If it does, please do not login. Instead
break into a Terminal window and see if you can ping or dig.
If you can, then you have a totally different networking stack
than on my machine, which is 12.10, with full updates as of 3 weeks ago.

As I already said, the problem I see taking place DOES NOT HAPPEN
ON WEB SITES THAT DO NOT REQUIRE A LOGIN TO HOTSPOT'S
PERMISSION PAGE!!!
IF THIS IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO TELL YOU NM IS NOT THE CULPRIT,
THERE IS ONLY ONE THING LEFT: FF!!!!




On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> > OK - so now you know that DNS lookups are not working in Linux at this
> > hotspot.
> >
> > - are there nameserver details in /etc/resolv.conf?
> > - are the nameserver details (if any) coming from the hotspot?
>
> Yes! That was my (possibly misexpressed) point earlier. If you don't
> use the dns servers that the hotspot's dhcp server hands out, you can
> FF, dig, ping to your heart's content, you won't get any result
> (unless you're pinging a system on the hotspot's internal network)
> without first getting to the hotspot's "home page" and accepting
> whatever it wants you to accept. And getting to the hotspot's "home
> page" necessitates using the hotspot's dns servers.
>
>
> > - can you ping any of the nameservers?
> > - can you get an answer back from any of the nameservers? (dig
> > @nameserver ...)
>
> "dig @hotspot-nameserver ..." will very likely be successful in spite
> of FF failing.
>
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