Yes, been there, done that - problem was the desktop configs are not consistant enough across all business groups to count on the pac file existance (we support an alarming number of business groups in man remote reqions globally, but it may be worth testing the latter option... Thanks for the response and the great suggestions! Fred --- Kinkie <kinkie-squid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 07:49 -0800, Fred Clark wrote: > > As noted in the post, we had to use dnsserver as > there > > are a whole lot of broken web sites in our > network, > > and they would not work if we used the internal > > resolver. By this I mean they wrote their code > with > > short host names, and the only way to keep them > from > > failing was to stay with the dnsserver... > > You could use a proxy autoconfiguration file not to > go through the proxy > for those, or you could use append_domain if they > all fall under the > same root (or could be made to). > > Kinkie > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/