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

[Philippe April]

I changed the call to iptables from using the hostname to using
inet_ntoa() with the in_addr structure (last_ip).. should work, I'll
test today, I put pre3 in configure.inc.

On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 08:52:13PM -0500, Philippe April wrote:
> 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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> Philippe April
> isf_lists at philippeapril.com
> 

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