WPAD works great in the US office, for both FF and IE. However, I must consider the overseas offices, because it's a really bad idea to try to run their web traffic to outside web sites through our proxy server here.
The big problem is (as you pointed out) that FF doesn't do the DHCP-and-DNS method of WPAD - it *only* looks for http://wpad.example.tld/wpad.dat. Therefore, I must find a way for at least one of the offices to get their settings for FF (and perhaps IE, but that's optional, and can be done otherwise with the DHCP-and-DNS method) from the wpad.dat file here in the US, and redirect them to the proxy server in their own office. That's because, as far as I know, given that I have a single forest/single domain configuration, I can't have http://wpad.example.tld exist in two offices at once, especially with two different wpad.dat files. So, I'm looking for how to serve that up out of the single wpad.dat file I can have on the web site. Even if I get that working, however, I'll still have the issue that if the connection is down between here and there, they'll have to manually configure their browsers regardless, which is a PITA. Kurt On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 14:43, Matthew W. Ross <mr...@ephrataschools.org> wrote: > So it's not working for you if you have the DHCP setting for option 252 set? > Even if you have the wpad.* domain pointing at your proxy server? > > Odd. My reading says that Firefox doesn't even tech the DHCP method. It only > works with the DNS method. DHCP shouldn't be effecting FF at all... > > Can you ping wpad, or wpad.yourdomain? I couldn't until I turned off the > Microsoft DNS server blacklist... which I don't have a link for you right > now. Microsoft will allow you to enter wpad into your dns server, but won't > actually respond to it until you turn that blacklist off. That took me half a > day to figure out. > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kurt Buff > [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > To: NT System Admin Issues > [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] > Sent: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 > 14:38:18 -0800 > Subject: Re: Further WPAD issue - not DNS... > > >> Yes, WPAD works with firefox, but only with DNS, not with >> DHCP-and-DNS, even though DHCP-and-DNS is more secure. >> >> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 13:57, Matthew W. Ross <mr...@ephrataschools.org> >> wrote: >> > WPAD does work with firefox... If you select the "Automatically detect >> proxy" setting in the proxy configuration. >> > >> > To do this, You must edit the %programfiles%\Mozilla >> Firefox\greprefs\all.js file, and change the following line: >> > >> > pref("network.proxy.type", 0); >> > >> > ... to ... >> > >> > pref("network.proxy.type", 4); >> > >> > I just need a clean and easy way to do this for all computers in our >> domain. Can anybody help with that? >> > >> > >> > --Matt Ross >> > Ephrata School District >> > >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: Kurt Buff >> > [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] >> > To: NT System Admin Issues >> > [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] >> > Sent: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 >> > 13:16:17 -0800 >> > Subject: Further WPAD issue - not DNS... >> > >> > >> >> So, I've got the US office working - now I had to consider our foreign >> >> offices. >> >> >> >> The AU office has a proxy of its own, but the UK office doesn't have a >> >> proxy server. >> >> >> >> I can configure DHCP in each office to point IE to another web site, >> >> each for a wpad.dat of their own, for each office, but that doesn't >> >> help with FireFox, which is in widespread use. >> >> >> >> Anyone run into this? Any ideas on how to solve it? I've been >> >> googling, and not finding any real answers to this. >> >> >> >> 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/> ~
