On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com>wrote:
> Bill McGonigle <b...@bfccomputing.com> writes: > > > > On 07/07/2009 12:54 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: > > > > > > I run my company's OpenVPN endpoint on both UDP and TCP. I send > > > out configurations using UDP because it works in almost all > > > circumstances, but there was once, with an employee travelling > > > somewhere in Europe, where the hotel firewall/NAT didn't do > > > anything for UDP connections. > [...] > > I hit a couple of these recently, in two different hotels on the same > > trip! Both only allowed DNS and HTTP/S (most of their guests only use > > wifi for facebook and porn?). > [...] > > I've since set up this kind of config for a couple clients with mobile > > salesforces that have had similar symptoms. > > > > At this point it seems "free wireless internet" is an insufficient > > advertisement for a business traveler, and there's probably nobody you > > can talk to ahead of time who can tell you what they allow. > > Start a wiki project? :) > > We've got the `open database of general knowledge' (Wikipedia), the > open database of maps (OpenStreetMap), the open database of > speed-limit signs (Wikispeedia), the open database of GSM cell-sites > (OpenBmap)..., why not one for WiFi-hotspots? > > Actually, it looks like OpenBmap <http://www.openbmap.org/> has > already expanded their scope to include WiFi hotspots; it seems like > access-restrictions might be just the sort of data that they'd want to > include in their database--I don't know whether they've considered > that prospect, yet. > > http://www.wigle.net/ is a map + wardriving mashup.
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