In message <16519.65260.843802.701148@bonnet.wsrcc.com>, "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
" writes:
>
>Ignatios Souvatzis writes:
>> What... you think some of them use a real router+real admin combination?
>
>;-)  
>
>I might overlook the badge saying "Linksys" instead of "Cisco", but
>the PPPOE that some run along with ineptly setup filtering is a real
>drag.
>
>I'm curious if the problem hotels run some very aggressive NAT that
>re-writes dns traffic.
>

I've had all sorts of problems with these hotel NATs before, but this 
is a very strange one, since it selectively affects different 
applications, was cured by a reboot, and shows up even when I'm doing 
things that shouldn't use the DNS.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb