Re: [squid-users] Re: usage of pac

Oh, well that is totally different. I didn't realize you were talking about
the automatic discovery.

The other gentleman is correct. Say you are in the domain mydomain.com.
Your computer will check DNS for the host address of wpad.mydomain.com.
When it finds that address, it will query it over http. It will query
wpad.dat in your www root.

Ok... here is an example.

Your webserver is 192.168.0.10

In DNS you add wpad in A 192.1686.0.10

IE will look for wpad.mydomain.com

It will get 192.168.0.10

It will ask that server, via http on port 80, for the wpad.dat file (the
file has to be in www root, ie www.mydomain.com/wpad.dat would be the
location of it)

It gets the file and uses it for configuration.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jorge Cuellar Martinez" <jorge.cuellar@sat.gob.mx>
To: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 3:40 PM
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Re: usage of pac

> I know what you are saying is rigth Adam, i'm working as that rigth now,
> what i want to know is how can i take advantage of IE's "detect settings"
> button, but when i push it, i see netbios traffic on my tcpdump output...
i
> can't see any dns traffic, so i'm sorry joelja i don't think it's like you
> are saying...
>
> thnx anyway i'm going to look around at the MS's site.
Received on Mon Apr 23 2001 - 13:54:42 MDT