Bug#803911: wpad.dat should enforce DIRECT connects for hosts in .local domain

To: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>, 803911@bugs.debian.org, submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#803911: wpad.dat should enforce DIRECT connects for hosts in .local domain
From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 08:35:39 +0100
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Reply-to: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>, 803911@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20151103052544.Horde.-llAINPmX2e6SGXP7TSAuee@mail.das-netzwerkteam.de>
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[Mike Gabriel]
> The wpad.dat shipped with debian-edu-config should enforce DIRECT  
> connects for hosts in the .local domain:

I agree.  But I have vague memories of this causing browser hang in some
browsers when trying to visit names missing in DNS or where the DNS
server were slow, possibly because DNS lookups in the wpad were
serialized across tabs.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

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