Re: [squid-users] BYPASS UPON FAILURE

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> ian j hart wrote:
>> On Sunday 23 March 2008 11:12:22 Amos Jeffries wrote:
>>> Tim Bates wrote:
>>>> K K wrote:
>>>>> For
>>>>> Windows/MSIE the setting can be done automatically by WPAD, DHCP, or
>>>>> GPO. For non-microsoft, this needs to be configured manually on each
>>>>> client.
>>>> For non-MS browsers you can often still use WPAD (Firefox on Linux for
>>>> example can do that still).
>>>> You can also get a modified version of Firefox (made by FrontMotion)
>>>> that supports GPO for certain settings.
>>>>
>>>> TB
>>> The only real trouble with WPAD is that it has never been formally
>>> standardised.
>>> Microsoft products use only the 'obsolete' DHCP methods of WPAD.
>>
>> Are you sure about this?
>>
>> IIRC I'm using only DNS. Which is clunky, but it works. (XP)

internet exploder will use dns...

firefox won't without configuration which means effectively half your
users won't.

The draft expired eons ago (it was expired when I first taught how use
in a workshop in 1999)

> I'm not 100% on anything to do with WPAD, despite a few months
> experimenting with it and various setups.
>
> I last tried it with XP and 2k running IE 5.5 SP1 and WindowsUpdate
> 3-something or MicrosoftUpdate 1-something.
>
> What versions of IE, WindowsUpdate/MicrosoftUpdate have you seen working
> with WPAD-DNS?
>
>
>>
>>> Linux/Mac/*BSD products use the easier but non-official DNS methods of
>>> WPAD.
>>>
>>> So you need to configure both methods for it to work properly on the
>>> network for all clients.
>>>
>>> Amos
>>
>
> Amos
Received on Sun Mar 23 2008 - 21:05:20 MDT