Automatically detect intranet network option

Automatically detect intranet network option

Posted: koobeg Date of post: 25.05.2017
automatically detect intranet network option

Welcome to the Ars OpenForum. Posting Guidelines Contact Moderators. What does "Automatically detect intranet network" do? Thu Jan 24, 6: Internet Explorer 7 introduced this interesting checkbox into the Intranet security zone.

However, I am unable to find out how the automatic system works.

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There's a whole host of articles talking about ticking it or unticking it, but no one talks about how it works. Anyone here know or have better Google skills than me. Thu Jan 24, From what I remember, it automatically detects intranet sites and adds them to the local intranet zone. But I dont think it works without Active Directory.

Id guess it bases its detection off your domain and dns info in AD?

If I had to guess, it would just use the IP and subnet mask, and assume anything in that subnet is "intranet".

If its more advanced, I suppose it could query the DCs for all "sites and subnets" and put those in the intranet zone as well.

Thu Jan 24, 1: IME with IE6, anything with a NetBIOS name http: That's the default behavior and it can be changed of course. So the IE6 approach to the problem was pretty simplistic.

They've obviously improved it in IE7 but I don't know the details. I'd love to find out though so I'll be watching this topic. Biggest issues we've had with it and IE7 is it no longer considers ssl'ed websites https: Otherwise we haven't really had issues with it auto-detecting properly.

Fri Jan 25, 1: Fri Jan 25, 2: Unless automatic detection has been disabled, and your intranet sites added to the list manually or with a GPO, and someone prefixed the URLs with "HTTP" so now none of your SSL'd sites are in the intranet zone.

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