Hey folks,
I enabled the "garden gnome" on the production exit server. What this
should do is trigger certain operating system's network connectivity probes
so that they'll show a splash page when people join the network. It's
designed to be as minimally intrusive as possible, so it only captures
probes to the specific urls that OSX/iOS/Android/Windows test to see if
they're connected to the internet.
Once a user clicks "go to the internet", that IP will be added to a white
list so they won't see the splash page again for 24 hours.
Please please please let me know if there are any issues that you
encounter. We absolutely don't want to have people unable to connect to the
network for some reason or another. I don't really have enough devices to
test on, so it's very possible that there could be an issue somewhere.
There are a couple design bits that I know I need to polish, but I'm open
to constructive feedback on any aspect of it.
Thanks!
Maxb