Hola
We have been using Pirania over the last couple of days. So I am just logging our observations and issues we faced, here.
- Once the Pirania is enabled, the captive portal redirection works on phones. Not on laptops (ubuntu - firefox and chromium). @rulosanti had already pointed this out in detail in a different post. the portal/auth.html does not load on the laptop, instead there is constant looping between portal and redirect pages.
- Local services deployed on the mesh are accessible through ip numbers - ipv4(10.x.x.x) and ipv6
- Local services cannot be accessed using hostnames. this is how it behaves
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http://hostname/ - resolves to lime app
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http://hostname.local/ - resolves to portal page
- we were able to access our device from internet using a vpn like service, though the device could not access internet. and also the device could access other devices on the vpn through internet.
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Thanks for all these comments @alemaree… Pirania is still a work-in-progress, so it is great that you’ve been brave enough to try it out 
@SAn and @luandro have been working on it, so I guess they will enjoy your comments.
I am also experiencing the redirection loop from a laptop running linux. It does work fine with phones.
Hi! Thanks for the reports!!
- The looping error is captured in this issue https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/issues/694
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http://hostname/ should work, which version of LibreRouterOs or LibreMesh did you use? Also please try using hostname.thisnode.info (or hostname.my.network.domain if you changed the main domain configuration for the network)
- Please can you expand more? I did not get if that is an issue or not, what did you expect to happen and what happened?
Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences
There is a rework of the pirania code that is happening in this branch https://github.com/libremesh/lime-packages/tree/pirania_into_shape and that I would like to merge to the main codebase ASAP. In this version I believe that isues 1 and 3 are maybe fixed.
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