Things you can do when gogo in flight doesn't work
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Okay, I’ve been on this flight for 30 minutes now, and I’m still trying to figure out what is going on.
dig gogoinflight.com
# No response
iconfig en0
# Nothing interesting, was trying to find the router.
Open up your wireless settings in macOS, find the router. For example, if your IP address is 172.19.131.149, it should look like 172.19.131.2.
curl 172.19.131.2
# dy>
Questa pagina dovrebbe rinviarvi subito verso il sito di autenticazione.<p>
curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
Se la ridirezione non avviene, <a href="http://airborne.gogoinflight.com/abp/page/abpDefault.do?REP=127.0.0.1&AUTH=172.19.131.149&CLI=54273&PORT=54272&RPORT="
Okay, now lets try going to that website.
open http://airborne.gogoinflight.com/abp/page/abpDefault.do?REP=127.0.0.1&AUTH=172.19.131.149&CLI=54273&PORT=54272&RPORT=
open http://airborne.gogoinflight.com/abp/page/abpDefault.do?REP=127.0.0.1&AUTH=172.19.131.149&CLI=54273&PORT=54272
It’s not working! Why?? Let’s try flushing the dns cache.
dscacheutil -flushcache
dig airborne.gogoinflight.com
NOTHING!
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Okay, something is wrong with DNS. Let’s remove DNS server (8.8.8.8) from the DNS tab within the wireless settings. Turns out I had it set to 8.8.8.8 manually to avoid my ISPs weird default 404 page rife with advertisements.
Once I removed the default DNS server I started getting that sweet, delicious internet!
So I guess the lesson learned is that DNS goes FIRST. Get DNS working first. If dig airborne.gogoinflight.com is returning nothing, you’re gonna have a bad time.
I probably could’ve diagnosed that by looking closer at my sudo tcpdump -i en0 -v command, and now that I have internet it all makes sense. But, if you have problems with gogoinflight, some of those commands may help you!
Also something to note, is that now I am able to dig.
The return value is 10.241.151.31, so if you want to browse to that IP to try and see if DNS is the problem more power to you!