WPAD Auto Discovery of Proxy (Squid) not working with DHCP. RHEL/CentOS

varunchaturvedi

Hi Friends,

I have tried to use DHCP server to broadcast the wpad.dat file for my network but it’s not working. My configuration is below….

Server OS CentOS 5.4 (Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5)

Client OS Windows XP (IE 6, Crome & Firefox 4/5 ) and RHEL 5.3 firefox

IPTables = Stopped

SELinux = Disabled

wpad.dat

/var/www/html/wpad.dat (or proxy.pac)

function FindProxyForURL(url,host)

{

return "PROXY 192.168.162.128:3128";

}

Apache confige

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

AddType application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig .dat

AddType application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig .pac

DHCP Config

/etc/dhcpd.conf

#

# DHCP Server Configuration file.

# see /usr/share/doc/dhcp*/dhcpd.conf.sample

ddns-update-style interim;

#ignore client-updates;

option wpad code 252 = text;

#option wpad "http://192.168.162.133/proxy.pac";

subnet 192.168.162.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {

# --- default gateway

option routers 192.168.162.1;

option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;

# option nis-domain "domain.com";

option domain-name "mynet.org";

option domain-name-servers 192.168.162.2;

option time-offset -18000; # Eastern Standard Time

# option ntp-servers 192.168.5.1;

# option netbios-name-servers 192.168.1.1;

# --- Selects point-to-point node (default is hybrid). Don't change this unless

# -- you understand Netbios very well

# option netbios-node-type 2;

range dynamic-bootp 192.168.162.2 192.168.162.254;

default-lease-time 21600;

max-lease-time 43200;

I have tried wpad.dat and proxy.pac both in DHCP config file.

If I am setting the url (http://192.168.162.128:3128) in browser it’s working and using my squid proxy server but when I checked “Automatically detect proxy setting for this network” it’s not supplying the proxy setting to the client. I have tried it with IE, Firefox and Crome but result is same.

Pls help and Thanks in advance….