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Verifying DNS Resolved IP Addresses for Whitelisted URLs
Use the following command to verify the DNS resolved IP addresses for the whitelisted URLs:
(host) #show firewall dns-names ap-name <AP-name>
Example:
(host) #show firewall dns-names ap-name ap135
Firewall DNS names
------------------
Index Name Id Num-IP List
----- ---- -- ------ ----
0 bugzilla 10 1 0.0.0.0
1 cricinfo 9 0
2 yahoo 1 0
3 mycorp 6 1 1.1.1.1
Bypassing Captive Portal Landing Page
An increasing number of user sessions in Captive Portal pre-authenticated role, repeatedly request the Captive
Portal login page from the controller. this impacts the number of browser-based user login requests handled
per second by the controller. This eventually delays the loading of the Captive Portal page and logging into
Captive Portal. Most of the increased activities are from non-browser based applications running on smart
phones and tablets.
When this feature is enabled, the controller sends 200 OK status code message to the now-browser based apps
so that the apps stop sending repeated requests to the controller. This reduces the load of the httpd process
on the controller. This feature is enabled by default.
You can disable this feature from the controller CLI. On disabling this feature, non-browser apps continue to
request Captive Portal login page from the controller. This increases the load of the httpd process of the
controller.
(host) (config) #web-server profile
(host) (Web Server Configuration) #bypass-cp-landing-page
The landing page contains the meta-refresh tag to reload the page using real browser applications.
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