Re: [squid-users] BYPASS UPON FAILURE

On Monday 24 March 2008 03:05:06 Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> 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.

Half of your users maybe; not half of mine. My users get IE, like it or not.

This would seem to be a good reason to avoid firefox. Shame.

>
> 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

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ian j hart