Determining proxy server/port

Question

I apologize if this is a simplistic question, I am not familiar with this kind of thing.

I am trying to determine my proxy server ip and port number in order to use a google calendar syncing program. I downloaded the proxy.pac file using google chrome. The last line reads:

return "PROXY proxyhost:1081";

I believe that means the port number is 1081, but for the proxy server, I was expecting something with the format "proxy.example.com" Any advice?

Thank you

Answer 1

Are you using the Windows operating system?

You can press Win+R, input "cmd" in the run box, you will get the "command Prompt", then input the following command and press Enter.

command 1

ipconfig  /all | find /i "Dns Suffix"

it will show something like this.

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : xxx.xxx.xxx

command 2

ping proxyhost

it will show something like this.

Pinging proxyhost.xxx.xxx.xxx [yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=60

Then maybe "proxyhost.xxx.xxx.xxx" is what you want.

Answer 2

Enter the following into windows commandline

netsh winhttp show proxy

It will return

Current WinHTTP proxy settings:

    Proxy Servers(s) : your.proxy.address.com:port