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		icebraining on March 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Save money on wifi using user agent switching Not always. The three captive portals I've tried resolved DNS just fine, but then redirected any HTTP requests to their web server instead.

rb2k_ on March 4, 2012 [–]

I've never encountered one that didn't have working DNS resolution

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