Creat a cname or A record for wpad.yourdomain.com and create a wpad.dat file
on that webserver.
for more info on this, go to microsoft and do a search for auto proxy config.
-Patrick
>>> "ElephantChild" 06/14/01 07:13AM >>>
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Susan Stone wrote:
> can this be done is Microsoft DNS??
>
> proxy.your.domain.goes.there. IN A 10.0.0.6
> IN A 10.0.0.7
I have no experience with anything other than bind, so I don't know.
Hopefully, it can, perhaps using a slightly different syntax. Did you
try it? (IMHO, if it can't, you should consider going for better DNS
software.)
> >From: ElephantChild
> >Subject: Re: Quiz:"auto proxy IP" [7:8308]
> >
> >On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Susan Stone wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.. We need to do the auto-proxy solution for browsing. I have a
main
> > > proxy's IP 10.0.0.6 and back up proxy 10.0.0.7. I need to all my IE
> >clients
> > > to point to a "auto IP address" let say 10.0.0.5 which can actually
> >point to
> > > 10.0.0.6 when both are on line, if 10.0.0.6 go down, it will
> >automatically
> > > point to the back up proxy 10.0.0.7. What is the better way to do
it.
> >How
> > > about in Cisco way? Any idea?
> >
> >If by "proxy" you mean "default router", go to http://www.cisco.com/ and
> >search for HSRP. If you're thinking of an HTTP proxy, your best bet is
> >to forget about 10.0.0.5 and just declare a single proxy in your DNS
> >zone file, with 2 addresses, as in
> >
> >proxy.your.domain.goes.there. IN A 10.0.0.6
> > IN A 10.0.0.7
> >
> >Then you can just configure proxy.your.domain.goes.there. as the HTTP
> >proxy in your users' browsers and forget that there are 2 addresses
> >behind that name.
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