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:[email protected]] 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 <[email protected]> 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:[email protected]] > 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/> ~
