I'm aware of the threats, but have been asked to implement anyway - mobile users don't want to have to manually reconfigure their laptops while in and out of the office, and Firefox is very popular...
Kurt On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:47, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote: > Or maybe that MS kb link is not relevant. > > Have you had a look at this? > > http://perimetergrid.com/wp/2008/01/11/wpad-internet-explorers-worst-feature/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 1:42 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Weird DNS issue I can't figure out > > You've probably already seen this, but it might help if you haven't? > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934864 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 1:36 PM > 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/> ~
