How does IE define a 'local Address'???

[Sunny4Ever]

Hi All

In IE6 in the LAN Settings / Proxy Server section there is a box labelled "bypass proxy server for local addresses" - does anyone know exactly what this means? I can only get vague infomation from my searches at Microsoft.

Thanks alot,
Sunny

 

[jemminger]

probably addresses on your LAN or local disk, like "c:/temp/file.html" or "

http://localhost/file.html"

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if (!succeed) try();
-jeff

 

[Sunny4Ever]

Jemminger

Thanks for your comment - however this is still vague. You mention the local file system but surely if this box was unchecked IE would not try and access a local address through a proxy!!??

When you say LAN does this mean subnet, if not what defines LAN in this context?

Finally does DNS have any relevance here - could "local address" refer to same DNS zone?

Thanks,
-S

 

[jemminger]

i don't know anything about networking...i would guess this means any server on your own network that doesn't require other DNS to find =========================================================
if (!succeed) try();
-jeff

 

[gigahertz]

I would "assume" it is based on your network card IP address and subnet mask. If your address is aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
and your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, then computers with addresses aaa.bbb.ccc.xxx where xxx= 0 through 255 are "local" addresses. There can actually be many more machines than 256 if one or more of the addresses belongs to a router.

 

[gigahertz]

This link provides a good explanation of IP addressing>

http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci212381,00.html

"Local" addresses would be addresses on your own network or LAN ("Local" Area Network).

 

[Sunny4Ever]

gigahertz

Thanks for clearing this up - I knew how IP addressing worked but was not sure if it was this mechanism which IE used (I thought it might be DNS)

Thanks again,
-S