iOS special signup screen prevention with domain name

Asked by Brian Jessee

I was trying to find an answer to my problem and this question redirect page splash only node #172367 mentions the problem but the link to the the mailing list is giving me a 404 error so..

What I am trying to do it prevent the special signup screen from coming up on the iOS which means the firewall has to let the lookup to the domain www.isg-apple.com.akadns.net or www.apple.com go through.

It could be done with just IP Addresses if I could find them all, but is there a way to use the domain name instead with the firewall rules.

Would it be as simple has adding it to directly to the iptable on the router?

I understand I can edit the host file, but I'd like to do it with the firewall.

I am using a dd-wrt router as the gateway.

Thanks!

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Andrei (andrei-halle-deactivatedaccount) said :
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If i can help by this, i would suggest that you keep your router having DHCP running.

But instead of having an array of local ip addresses beginning from .100 to .254, you could set it to have pool of addresses beginning from .100 but ending by .150 for example.

So you'll be able to set a fix local ip adress to your server, for example, .152 who will never by used by the DHCP server of your router limited to a max value of 150 (for example 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.150 considering having a netmask of 255.255.255.0. I don't know how large is your company so that's just a suggestion.

Finally you'll have to set etc/networks/interfaces file by doing sudo nano /etc/networks/interfaces and adding an ip adress who will configure etho (the network card not the wifi card of your server) by adding these lines :

auto eth0
 iface eth0 inet static
     address 192.168.1.152
     network 192.168.1.0 (this line is optional)
     netmask 255.255.255.0
     broadcast 192.168.1.255 (this line is optional)
     gateway 192.168.1.1

(again this adress is used only for an example purpose, some router are configured differently meaning that the could have gateway adresses like 10.10.0.1, or 192.168.1.1 and so on, with different masks)

Finally set the redirection to port 80 in your router configuration by assigning the port 80 to the 192.168.1.152 adresss of your server.

Once it will be set, there's this domain name part (the wan part) who is another story but keep in mind that you server is not recognise by a redirection url but by setting it to a reserved ip address in this example i used 192.168.1.152

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Andrei (andrei-halle-deactivatedaccount) said :
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I read your question and i'm not sure if i answer what you mean.

But by reading that you want to change the ip tables of the router, i saw that you want it to act as a static ip router but it may give you a lot of problems.

Static routing means that each and every computers you have, will have to be set manually.

As long as the computers are not used as servers, your router will give them proper ip adress without any problem.

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