Re: [squid-users] BYPASS UPON FAILURE

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)

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

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