They also encourage you to provide info on yourself (create an account, provide birthday) to even use the screen on the seat back…

  • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    The airplane captive portals generally don’t work if you use a different DNS.

    I’ve always had to defer to “automatic” DNS and let DHCP give me the DNS address in order to access the wifi

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      It is possible to use VPN over DNS. Some mad lads back in the '90s made a DNS server that would forward TCP packets over name service text records. The captive portals usually still let DNS pass. But it’s not like you’re going to be able to use any high bandwidth applications that way.