[Gllug] GNEEERRR rolls out Wi-Fi to passengers

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Richard Jones wrote:

> Does anyone know about the security involved with these services?  I
> assume that at the start all port 80 requests get directed to the
> sign-in page.  However I also heard that DNS requests are honoured
> correctly even when you are not signed in.  If this is true, I can see
> 'someone' writing an IP-over-DNS or IP-over-ICMP layer ...  Do you
> think they route traffic with strange protocol numbers?  Anyone have
> good information?

IP over DNS has already been done - NSTX http://nstx.dereference.de/nstx/

Jason Clifford
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