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    WPAD/Squid fail, having trouble figuring out what went wrong

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      d00der
      last edited by

      I've got PFsense set up with Squid running. I had it running okay in transparent mode, but after reading that WPAD is a better alternative, I decided to make the switch.

      I pretty much followed "WPAD Autoconfigure for Squid" tutorial exactly. I added the appropriate entry to my DNS server (Windows Server 2012 if it matters), restarted my browser (Chrome), and tried to browse a site, but I was getting a "Proxy Misconfiguration" error, no sites at all would load, even my PFsense webconfigurator. So after panicking a bit, I reverted to a previous config, deleted the DNS entry and cleared my DNS cache. But I don't know what went wrong, so I'm hoping to get some help here.

      Traffic was getting directed from the Proxy to PFsense, as I have evidence in the log:

      Squid - Access Logs
      Date	IP	Status	Address	User	Destination
      20.05.2016 16:00:01	172.16.11.208	TCP_MISS/000	http://crl.microsoft.com/pki/crl/products/MicrosoftTimeStampPCA.crl	-	172.16.11.100
      20.05.2016 15:59:55	172.16.11.208	TAG_NONE/503	kv401-prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com:443	-	-
      20.05.2016 15:59:55	172.16.11.208	TAG_NONE/503	geo-prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com:443	-	-
      20.05.2016 15:59:55	172.16.11.227	TCP_MISS_ABORTED/000	http://ssw.live.com/UploadData.aspx	-	172.16.11.100
      20.05.2016 15:59:52	172.16.11.208	TAG_NONE/503	geo-prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com:443	-	-
      20.05.2016 15:59:52	172.16.11.208	TAG_NONE/503	geover-prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com:443	-	-
      20.05.2016 15:59:49	172.16.11.208	TAG_NONE/503	disc401-prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com:443	-	-
      20.05.2016 15:59:49	172.16.11.208	TAG_NONE/503	geover-prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com:443	-	-
      20.05.2016 15:59:49	172.16.11.208	TAG_NONE/503	kv401-prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com:443	-	-
      20.05.2016 15:59:47	172.16.11.208	TAG_NONE/503	disc401-prod.do.dsp.mp.microsoft.com:443	-	-
      
      

      Here's my wpad.dat (.100 is pfsense, the gateway)

      
      function FindProxyForURL(url,host)
      {
      return "PROXY 172.16.11.100:3128";
      }
      
      

      Squid is vesion 3.5.19
      PFsense version 2.3-RELEASE

      What's confusing to me is why I couldn't even load the web configurator. Since I entered the IP directly (172.16.11.100:9090), why was it being sent to the DNS server at all, and therefore being redirected to the Proxy? I'm sure this is just something in the config that I missed, but given the process to start it up, I can't really go ticking boxes and breaking the internet over and over.

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        aGeekhere
        last edited by

        for the wpad you need to go direct for local
        follow this https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=112335.0

        Never Fear, A Geek is Here!

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          d00der
          last edited by

          That was it! Thank you.

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