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Note: "Automatically Detect Settings" is on by default in Windows. What do you lose by turning this off? See this article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc713344.aspx
Barry shares: It looks like there are certain firewall clients and web proxies where settings can be configured in DHCP or DNS. Do we use anything like this at Cornell? I don't don’t think so. The only possibility I can think of is the proxying for non-redrover 10 space for things like windows and SEP updates. But, I don't don’t think these proxies rely on the WPAD protocol. But someone in CIT should know the answer for that.
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