DNS Security Enhancements and Web Proxy Auto Discovery

“…Using Web Proxy Auto Discovery (WPAD) is a simple and effective way to configure web browsers to use the ISA firewall as a proxy server. WPAD can be implemented using DNS or DHCP, with DNS being the more common of the two. For WPAD using DNS, configuration is simple and straightforward; all that is required is that you configure a host record in DNS called WPAD that resolves to the IP address of your ISA firewall’s internal network interface…”

For the test of the story, check out http://tmgblog.richardhicks.com/2009/06/16/dns-security-enhancements-and-web-proxy-auto-discovery/

HTH,

Deb

DEBRA LITTLEJOHN SHINDER
MVP (Enterprise Security)
“MS SECURITY”
[email protected]

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