Home page redirection, use a dummy DNS ?

[Ketil Froyn]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 06:41 -0800, itsharkopath at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
> Imagine a user in a hotspot, when he comes to the hotspot and tries
> to load a webpage (on the internet), he would automatically redirected
> to login page.
> I believe the following is to be done.
> There should be a DHCP server setup which gives the arriving clients
> IP, default router address etc.
[snip]
> 
> Is there any other way to do this redirection

A transparent web proxy would probably be the easiest way to do
something like this.

  http://www.google.com/search?q=transparent+proxy

Ketil Froyn
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