Aren't you supposed to configure your DNS rather than your DHCP in
order to use wpad ? I thought you had to name one of your servers
"wpad.domain.name" and it's automatically looked up by firefox.
Other than this configuration, I don't know anything about wpad...
On 7/4/09, Chitta Mandal <
chitta@...> wrote:
> I have the following option in /etc/dhcpd.conf:
> ----
> # automatic web proxy configuration
> option wpad code 252 = text;
> option wpad "
http://sit.iitkgp/proxy.pac\n";
> ----
>
> If I use "Automatic proxy configuration url as
> "
http://sit.iitkgp/proxy.pac", then mozilla works fine.
>
> However, if I try the "Auto-detect proxy settings for the network",
> then there is a failure. What could be the problem?
>
> Note that the lease obtained from the DHCP server contains the
> following record:
>
> option unknown-252
> 68:74:74:70:3a:2f:2f:73:69:74:2e:69:69:74:6b:67:70:2f:70:72:6f:78:79:2e:70:61:63:a;
>
> -C
>
>
