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Direct all DNS Requests to a local IP address

Hi,

I have created a portable wireless network and server (Windows Server 2003) which members of the public can access.  They are given an IP address via DHCP from the server.  There is no internet access available through this system.

I would like any user that opens up a browser to be directed to the web server of our server.

Essentially I want to capture any DNS requests and rather than performing a query - I want to return the IP address of the server.

I'm hoping there will be a simple way to this using wildcards within the Windows DNS server setup?

Thanks!
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are you talking about a walled garden scenario like for a wifi hotspot login page or something?

That is a job for the wireless access point device - not for windows DNS.

There are lots of solutions around for this - there is the popular freeware 'chillispot', and there is commercial systems like Mikrotik that can handle that sort of thing very well.

Cheers.
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Perfect - thanks!
Thanks Chris-Dent!  That works great but what if you want to only direct initial http req to a single splash page, then the wireless hotspot user can go wherever they want on the Internet.  Basically, I am trying to find a way to do this without changing multi-vendor firmware on about 20 disparate hotspots and use a DMZ DNS server to start the user on a splash page and then set them free from there.  Any ideas??

Then you need to look beyond DNS at products built to do that for you I'm afraid.

It's something Cisco discuss in their documentation:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_configuration_example09186a008067489f.shtml#backinfo

We won't be able to take that function away from the network layer though.

Chris