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Pac File Question #785

Closed ChristoffBo closed 4 months ago

ChristoffBo commented 7 months ago

Hi How exactly would I point my DHCP Clients to a pac file?

Say my pac files is at http://10.0.0.1/proxy.pac

Not an issues just a question.

kind regards

Hemsby commented 7 months ago

If Im not mistaken you would do it like this. I have used your path in my example. image

The other option is to use DNS and just create an A Record with the hostname WPAD and set the IP to 10.0.0.1.

The WPAD protocol uses DHCP or DNS to locate the PAC file. The browser used in endpoints search for a web server on startup to find information on the PAC file location. The web browser sends the local DHCP server a query to find the PAC file location. If the proxy auto discovery is not successful with DHCP, the browser then uses DNS to detect the PAC file location.

ChristoffBo commented 7 months ago

Hi Thank you.

My address for the pac file is actuallt http://10.0.0.100:8080/media/proxy.pac

it wont let me add it into an a record.

but i did as above and converted my url to a hex string. will give it some time and see what happens.

Thank you sir.