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Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-livingood-dns-redirect-00

Andrew Sullivan <ajs@shinkuro.com> Tue, 14 July 2009 15:52 UTC

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On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 02:25:33PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> Captive portals come to mind, e.g. to authenticate to a wireless access
> point, or to quarantine a customer's virus-infested computer.

There are in fact ways to do that without mucking with DNS answers.
Some portals do such things, and I contend that such approaches are
always preferable.

Ay

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Andrew Sullivan
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