[Dnsmasq-discuss] using squid with dnsmasq and hosts file

[Simon Kelley]

sbolic wrote:
> Hi,
> I am  a new  user  of dnsmasq using squid on my network. dnsmasq with 
> dhcp works fine and I need help to config dhcp to send proxy parameters 
> to clients to force them to use squid.
> Can you help me with this or just post your dnsmasq.conf file.
> Thanks forward
> SBolic
> 

The keyword to Google for  this is "wpad". Wpad can work  via DHCP and
via DNS. In my experience, the DHCP variant is implemented in Windows,
but not Linux.

The line I have in dnsmasq.conf looks like this:

dhcp-option=252,"http://central/wpad.dat"

which points the browser at a file on my web server which looks like this:

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
  if (isPlainHostName(host) ||
      isInNet(host, "192.168.0.0", "255.255.252.0"))
    return "DIRECT";
  else
    return "PROXY central:3128";
}


HTH

Simon.