Why don't you cut to the chase.<br>Take your Ubuntu 12.10 (updated as of say 3 weeks ago), to<br>a Starbuck's hotspot and see if your FF will display Starbuck's<br>login web page. If it does, please do not login. Instead<br>
break into a Terminal window and see if you can ping or dig.<br>If you can, then you have a totally different networking stack<br>than on my machine, which is 12.10, with full updates as of 3 weeks ago.<br><br>As I already said, the problem I see taking place DOES NOT HAPPEN<br>
ON WEB SITES THAT DO NOT REQUIRE A LOGIN TO HOTSPOT'S<br>PERMISSION PAGE!!!<br>IF THIS IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO TELL YOU NM IS NOT THE CULPRIT,<br>THERE IS ONLY ONE THING LEFT: FF!!!!<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Tom H <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomh0665@gmail.com" target="_blank">tomh0665@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Karl Auer <<a href="mailto:kauer@biplane.com.au">kauer@biplane.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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> OK - so now you know that DNS lookups are not working in Linux at this<br>
> hotspot.<br>
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</div><div class="im">> - are there nameserver details in /etc/resolv.conf?<br>
> - are the nameserver details (if any) coming from the hotspot?<br>
<br>
</div>Yes! That was my (possibly misexpressed) point earlier. If you don't<br>
use the dns servers that the hotspot's dhcp server hands out, you can<br>
FF, dig, ping to your heart's content, you won't get any result<br>
(unless you're pinging a system on the hotspot's internal network)<br>
without first getting to the hotspot's "home page" and accepting<br>
whatever it wants you to accept. And getting to the hotspot's "home<br>
page" necessitates using the hotspot's dns servers.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> - can you ping any of the nameservers?<br>
> - can you get an answer back from any of the nameservers? (dig<br>
> @nameserver ...)<br>
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</div>"dig @hotspot-nameserver ..." will very likely be successful in spite<br>
of FF failing.<br>
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