[Commotion-discuss] Commotion-discuss Digest, Vol 13, Issue 6
Dan Staples
danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
Wed Oct 16 17:16:41 UTC 2013
Here's the relevant bug report:
https://github.com/opentechinstitute/luci-commotion-splash/issues/7
On 10/16/2013 01:07 PM, Dan Staples wrote:
> Thanks for the update. For the splash page issue you were seeing, that's
> a known bug (and I'll file a bug report right now). Basically, what I
> think is going on, is that when you click either the "internet" or
> "local apps" buttons to authenticate, it sometimes takes longer for the
> node to register you as authenticated than it does to redirect you, and
> thus it splashes you again. In other words, you'll have to click through
> the splash page 2 or 3 times before you actually get redirected to where
> you're trying to go. Super annoying!
>
> If you encounter it again, try clicking through a couple more times, and
> let me know if it still doesn't redirect you. In the meantime, I'll add
> it to my list of things to fix.
>
> Thanks for the report!
>
> Dan
>
> On 10/16/2013 12:26 PM, Daniel Hastings wrote:
>> Hey Dan,
>>
>> Must have erased the section about the splash page. Sorry about that. I
>> could not get the splash page to disappear on the password protected
>> network and it would not appear on the open student network. Fixed the
>> issue by checking the immediately authenticate box on the closed
>> network. I first tried the allowed hosts/subnets and could not get it to
>> work but the immediately authenticate option works fine. Everything is
>> back to normal now but I'll let you know if it happens again. As for
>> the DNS issue. I think it may have been a problem with one of my local
>> DNS servers. I set each node to use the local server rather than the
>> open DNS servers that I normally use and it did not seem to work. I'll
>> have to check my configuration on my local servers. Everything seems to
>> be ok for now. Sorry for the clarification error. Thanks for the help.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
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>> 1. Strange Splash Page Behavior (Dan Hastings)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:27:06 +0300
>> From: Dan Hastings <dhastings at abaarsotech.org
>> <mailto:dhastings at abaarsotech.org>>
>> To: commotion-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>> <mailto:commotion-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>> Subject: [Commotion-discuss] Strange Splash Page Behavior
>> Message-ID: <525D6CDA.2010708 at abaarsotech.org
>> <mailto:525D6CDA.2010708 at abaarsotech.org>>
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>> I just set up our second commotion network at school for the teachers. I
>> put the network on a different channel (7) and added WPA2-PSK
>> encryption. The first odd thing I noticed was when using the
>> unencrypted student network I picked up the wrong DNS servers.
>>
>> I also noticed that I could connect to the student network and receive a
>> really good signal from my room. Normally I could not even connect to
>> the student network from this location. It seemed like the two networks
>> were intertwined but when I checked the OLSR page they are definitely
>> not connected. I'm not sure if this is an issue I have with my router or
>> with my commotion nodes.
>>
>> I'm using the latest overnight build on the teacher encrypted network
>> and just the DR2 stable release on the student network.
>>
>> Thanks for the the help.
>>
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>>
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:53:55 -0400
>> From: Dan Staples <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
>> <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>>
>> To: commotion-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>> <mailto:commotion-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Commotion-discuss] Strange Splash Page Behavior
>> Message-ID: <525D8133.2090409 at opentechinstitute.org
>> <mailto:525D8133.2090409 at opentechinstitute.org>>
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>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Can you give a little more detail about the DNS issue? What was it set
>> to, and how did you find out? Usually one's computer will set its DNS
>> server to the one(s) specified by the router, which is sent in the DHCP
>> response. So unless you manually configured the DNS servers your
>> computer uses, it should be using the router itself as the DNS server.
>>
>> And what was the strange splash page behavior you experienced?
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>> On 10/15/2013 12:27 PM, Dan Hastings wrote:
>> > I just set up our second commotion network at school for the
>> teachers. I
>> > put the network on a different channel (7) and added WPA2-PSK
>> > encryption. The first odd thing I noticed was when using the
>> > unencrypted student network I picked up the wrong DNS servers.
>> >
>> > I also noticed that I could connect to the student network and
>> receive a
>> > really good signal from my room. Normally I could not even connect to
>> > the student network from this location. It seemed like the two
>> networks
>> > were intertwined but when I checked the OLSR page they are definitely
>> > not connected. I'm not sure if this is an issue I have with my
>> router or
>> > with my commotion nodes.
>> >
>> > I'm using the latest overnight build on the teacher encrypted network
>> > and just the DR2 stable release on the student network.
>> >
>> > Thanks for the the help.
>> >
>> >
>> > Dan
>> >
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