[MLB-WIRELESS] MW Intranet DNS & Redirection

[Ben Anderson]

The iptables rule is easy:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP --dport 80 -j REDIRECT 80

Don't forget to use something like mod_rewrite to convince apache to respond
to every http request with it's own page!

Regards,
Ben.


> Excuse the late reply,
> I'm running a similar setup to Dan ie AP, Omni, DHCP server.
> But I am also having similar problems, whereby I get my DHCP server
issuing
> IP address's to hosts who never visit the router address in their web
> browser (using webalizer stats). What we need is ipchains/iptables/ipfw to
> filter port 80 request for a particular subnet to automatically take it to
a
> "Welcome to Melbourne Wireless, blah blah blah" site which details on how
to
> connect permanently. Once this node is permanently connected, that IP
> address can be taken off the filter. I think that people are connecting to
> my node thinking that they can get free internet, but I would like to
> "educate" them by visiting this website. Could some help me out on the
> iptables/ipchains rules?
>
> L8r.
>
> > ----------
> > From: Dan Flett
> > Sent: Thursday, 20 November 2003 15:05
> > To: Melbourne Wirless
> > Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] MW Intranet DNS & Redirection
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > From looking through the Wiki it looks like DNS for the MW network has
> > been discussed at length in the past, but I'm wondering has there been
any
> > recent discussion or developments?  I am Node GMR and personally, I can
> > navigate quite well just typing 10.10.x.x numbers into my browser.  I'm
> > just concerned that not being able to type in human-readable names into
a
> > browser will make using the network less user-friendly for the
less-geeky
> > punters.
> >
> > On a related topic, I run an access point at my node with DHCP.  From
> > looking at the leases log I see that I get the occasional visitor
> > assocating with my AP.  I'm pretty sure that these visitors are either
my
> > neighbors' home computers associating by accident, or wardrivers looking
> > for Internet and home networks to probe.  I'm thinking that once they
> > associate, they probably think they have Internet access.  So when
they're
> > connected they're going to type something like " www.google.com" into
> > their browsers.  And they're going to get a 404 error.
> >
> > Is there some way to redirect these requests to my local web page at
> > 10.10.145.45 or any other web page of my choosing?  All these chance
> > associations that people are having with my AP are a great chance to
> > spread the word about Melbourne Wireless and the network.  But I don't
> > think any of them are going to go to the trouble of looking at the
default
> > gateway that my DHCP gives them and then typing that address into their
> > browser.  Instead of a 404 I want them to see a web page that explains
why
> > they're not seeing Google and tells them what the Melbourne Wireless
> > Intranet is.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dan
> >
>
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