First things first - I can't ping the name, wpad.mycompany.com from the DC that holds the FSMO roles.
Once I've got that figured, I'll tackle the rest. On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:05, Joseph L. Casale <jcas...@activenetwerx.com> wrote: > What do the logs say about the request? > That'll go a long way in diagnosing the issue. > Do you have the mime type set, does the webserver get the request formatted > as you expected, _and_ server it back? > IIRC, ff doesn’t look for a proxy by default... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:49 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Weird DNS issue I can't figure out > > I put in an A record - I have a separate web site just for this. > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:41, Joseph L. Casale > <jcas...@activenetwerx.com> wrote: >> What type of dns entry did you make? >> I made a cname for mine to `wpad -> fqdn.server.local.` then just put a >> wpad.dat in the root of the default site on that server (this way I could >> move it transparently by only adjusting the cname if need be...) >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:36 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Weird DNS issue I can't figure out >> >> I'm trying to implement WPAD in our US office, and think I've got it >> mostly covered, except for one thing. >> >> On our main IIS box I've configured a web site called wpad, and set up >> a static entry in DNS on the main DC yesterday to point to it. >> >> I can't ping by name, but if I do a 'ping -a 12.34.56.78' I get the >> name resolution just fine. >> >> I see an 6268 event in the DNS event log that seems relevant, but not >> much information about it, after having visited http://eventid.net - >> the one comment there said something about a TXT entry, but I've >> searched and found only one reference to wpad.mycompany.com in DNS, no >> TXT or other files at all with that name. >> >> I can't even ping it from the DC running DNS. >> >> What's even more weird is that I can ping it by name from our foreign >> offices - this is probably something I'll need to do something about >> later... >> >> Anyone know what the heck is going on? >> >> Kurt >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
