How to disable WPAD in Win10?

[alfabeta]

@jpgpi250

I noticed the wpad (unresolved) dns requests a long time a go. They are coming from windows 10 and I haven't found a way to stop windows making these requests.

How-to Geek:

On Windows 10, you’ll find this option under Settings > Network & Internet > Proxy.... Just turn the “Automatically detect settings” option off to disable WPAD.

[alfabeta]

@alfabeta

On Windows 10, you’ll find this option under Settings > Network & Internet > Proxy.... Just turn the “Automatically detect settings” option off to disable WPAD.

The How-to Geek instruction to turn off the “Automatically detect settings” option has not disabled WPAD DNS queries.

[jfb]

This may be a good topic for a Windows forum.

[wd9895]

@alfabeta

has not disabled WPAD DNS queries.

Confirmed. Id you have a solution please let us know.

Found this here:

Was man mit dem Pi-hole noch so machen kann

Is that a potential solution ?

Or this ?
https://technikbench.de/pi-hole-wpad-deaktivieren/

[alfabeta]

I haven't tried the recommendation, having the Pi-hole serve a valid WPAD.dat response:

Die Lösung ist aber so einfach wie naheliegend: Man muss einfach nur sicherstellen, dass die Clients eine eigene, also vertrauenswürdige „ wpad.dat “ finden. Und dazu ist der Pi-hole natürlich bestens geeignet.

Die Lösung ist simpel: Man liefert einfach eine eigene, gültige wpad.dat aus. Dazu kann man das Pi-Hole nutzen.