Yes you are right. I got the scripts to work to change the DNS and when the ISP goes down the redirect happens from the Http://original_host/original.url to Http://mikrotik_hotspot/original.url and the mikrotik dispalys the "sorry internet is down" page but the images are not there. So My ...

no I think it can and rextended pointes me onto a good route, It works to the points where I am testing it and so far the problem is that the commands in srcipts works only sometimes and sometimes do not. Thanks in any case, and its hard to believe that there is something that Mikrotik cannot do

Thanks, this is big difference in a way that after making this DNS entry when the browser tries to browse anything on first attemtp it gets page not found 404 error and on the second it gets the "Sorry internet not available" So it looks like it can be done, please give me a suggestion on ...

yes probably we misunderstand each other somewhere, but lets narrow it down. From what you are saying I understand that it is not possible to have all users directed to a "Sorry no internet" page without access to a public DNS. your 1) point is easily accomplished by DHCP and that how it a...

well as i stated the DNS is not the issue in this case because I don't need to resolve anything else but the hotspot itself and it is being resolved. I can ping by hostname ( from the router and the client) i can browse to it and it has an entry in the DNS automatically created and working fine. The...

There seem to be a ton of questions on this topic and not clear answers to it. Issue: when the ISP is down users dont realy know that, so when they connect and nothing happens, the login page does not come up. There are seemingly good solutions on notifying the users of the status like http://wiki.m...