Yosemite pac file

[NickDay85]

Hi all,

 

I'm having troubles with Yosemite (and El Capitan) at the moment with the use of .pac files.

 

When the mac is connected to our network all is fine, but when at home, Safari, Mail, and AppStore (and any other 'stock' Apple application) has no connection to the internet.

 

This problem doesn't happen with the same .pac files on machines running 10.8/10.9.

 

Any ideas?

 

TIA.

 

 

Nick

[AntonioRocco]

Not sure why it's not working as .pac files work for me regardless of OS. Maybe there's a problem elsewhere? If yours is an IPv4 network (probably is) disable IPv6 on the affected macs and of course make sure DNS is fully resolving properly on both pointers for the server serving the file. Obviously stay clear of .local for your TLD suffix as OS X (especially the later versions) tends to be even more 'sniffy' about this than it ever was. Hopefully none of this applies to you and without being there it's difficult to help further?

 

In the meantime it may help your situation if you were to create an 'away from your network' location that has no .pac file configured. When away from the network that requires the file, advise/train/coach the user to change their location setting after booting up and logging in. Location settings can be made part of whatever deployment workflow you're using, either baked in or as a task sequence, or you could simply configure the settings using ARD.

 

Assuming you don't know how to manually create a location using the GUI, click on System Preferences > Network > Location > Edit Locations and once created/configured the Locations option becomes available in the Apple Menu.

 

Hope this helps?

 

Antonio Rocco (ACSA)

Edited January 11, 2016 by AntonioRocco

[NickDay85]

Thanks for your reply. I haven't thought about disabling IPv6, I will try that!

 

The pac file is working fine for every device apart from Macs running OSX 10.10 or later. Inside our network, all good. Outside, only 'non-apple' applications pass-through the pac for DIRECT access.

 

I have tried creating locations, but Workgroup manager settings override proxy settings regardless of location set.