Re: [squid-users] WPAD / PAC woes

Brent Clark wrote:
> Tim Bates wrote:
>> On 10/5/2008, "Brent Clark" <brentgclarklist@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> m trying to get WPAD working, but Mozilla Firefox is not playing game.
>>> IE is working.
>>>
>>> My DNS entry:
>>> --------------------
>>> wpad IN A 192.168.111.9
>>> IN TXT "service:
>>> wpad:http://wpad.example.local:80/wpad.dat"
>>> wpad.tcp IN SRV 0 0 80 wpad.example.local.
>>>
>>> My DHCP entry:
>>> option wpad-url code 252 = text;
>>> option wpad-url "http://wpad.example.local/wpad.dat\n";
>>>
>>
>> My guess is something broken with the DNS method and IE is working
>> because it also tries the DNS method (which really only works for IE
>> anyway).
>> Is the DHCP server giving out a correct DNS suffix (the same suffix the
>> wpad DNS entry is under)?
>>
>> TB
>>
> I found the problem. Looks like the client does a query for
> http://192.168.111.9/wpad.dat.
>
> and I can ping wpad (no dns suffix added)
>
> Which would actually rely on apaches "default" virtual host.
>
> I confirmed this by copying the wpad.dat file to /var/www.
>
> All works.
>
> Now to figure what my next step is / or how im going to fix this, cause
> I dont like that default used, but good to know its "working"
>
> Regards
> Brent Clark

Does your DHCP WPAD setting have that IP in it? or the client have no
local domain set?

IIRC Firefox checked once for wpad.<localdomain>/wpad.dat via DNS
instead of the ghastly recursive methods IE tries.

Amos

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