Kacheong Poon writes: > > In other words, provide tools that help the administrator to set up > > the Apache or <insert-what-they-call-it-today> web server to provide > > the necessary PAC file, and to configure named properly. Trying to do > > an end-run around the WPAD design (regardless of what one might think > > of the 'design') seems like a long-term mistake to me. > > > What do you mean by providing tools to set up Apache or > other web server?
That'd be example configurations, scripts, and/or applications. > Is it really inside the scope of NWAM? I don't care. I'm not interested in dragging every problem into NWAM's scope. If there's some place _outside_ of NWAM (such as a "make WPAD easy" project or a "Solaris used as web proxy" project) that's more appropriate to solve the problems, then that's where the work should be done. I don't believe that NWAM should necessarily provide hacks to support things that are missing from the overall architecture. > And by configuring named, do you mean to run named locally > and have an entry for wpad.<domain> so that those apps using > WPAD with DNS will resolve the wpad name to localhost? No, I mean configuring named -- creating zone files for someone managing a name server. > Then > the apps will contact the local web server to retrieve the > PAC file? No. I'm still not talking about hacks, and I view redirecting WPAD towards the local host as just a hack. It's not at all how WPAD was intended to operate. > > My proposal: configure named, configure Apache, go have coffee. ;-} > > > This is fine. We just need to make sure that we have a good > answer for the expected question "Why doesn't Firefox use the > proxy info specified in NWAM ;-)" "Because you haven't finished setting up your network properly." -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
