On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:33:12 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > I just installed Squid on a host of my house with Debian Squeeze. Then I > added in my DHCP server the following configuration options: > > option wpad code 252 = text; > option wpad "http://wpad.freesoftware/proxy.pac\n";;
(...) Just a side note on this. By reading the Wikipedia article about WPAD¹ it looks like Firefox can only play nice with a DNS based method as specifically mentioned in the Notes section: *** DHCP has a higher priority than DNS: if DHCP provides the WPAD URL, no DNS lookup is performed. Notice that Firefox and Chrome do not support DHCP, only DNS *** Not sure if that information still remains true, though... ¹http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Proxy_Autodiscovery_Protocol Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.03.30.14.25...@gmail.com
