RE: [squid-users] BYPASS UPON FAILURE

Thanks very much guys... as I mentioned, I am new to this and will therefore
try it out with a colleague who knows squid well.

Will get back if anything.
Thanks once again.

-----Original Message-----
From: ian j hart [mailto:ianjhart@ntlworld.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 3:04 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Cc: Amos Jeffries
Subject: Re: [squid-users] BYPASS UPON FAILURE

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)

> 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

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ian j hart