[Volunteers] Ongoing problem with Wifidog + solution - WAS: Ton acces internet

[Philippe April]

Okay... Robert contacted me regarding Victoria, he got there and net
wouldn't work. He unplugged and replugged and it worked.

I logged in to some other hotspots, a few were hung.

There was NOTHING in the WiFiDog_AuthServers chain.

Alex, what if we detect the auth server's IP has changed... call
iptables to set it to the new one (and DNS gave us an error and didn't
put in anything)?

I think we need to call iptables WITH THE IP and not with
auth.ilesansfil.org, otherwise if the resolving fails, we THINK it's
alright and it's done, but it's not (and that's right after flushing the
chain .....). We could check for the return code of iptables, but even
if we know it failed... What can we do...

How about we flush AFTER we're sure we got good replacement IPs? :)

So, wanna implement this, or should I do it? :)

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:48:40PM -0500, Alexandre Carmel-Veilleux wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 06:46:53PM -0500, Philippe April wrote:
> > 
> > I'll see what I can do to test that change... I could definitely make my
> > DNS resolve auth.ilesansfil.org to something else, but then it won't be
> > able to ping it...
> > 
> > Did Alex make it do that change in the firewall even if it's not HTTP pingable?
> 
> 	It does it automatically anytime that it rotates Auth Servers.
> Such as when HTTP pings fail.
> 
> Alex



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