On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 10:42, Boex,Matthew W. wrote: > seth, > > thanks. i forgot... i did try that one too. i just retried with your proxy setting and got this error... > > Gathering package information from servers > Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.3 base > Error getting file > http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/7.3/i3 > 86/headers/header.info > [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno socket error] nonnumeric port from what I can tell from doing some searches regarding python and these types of errors it is a bug in python 1.5.2 which was not resolved until python 2.1.2 so - you could take the route of updating to a newer python/rhl/etc and see if the problem goes away, I bet it will. -sv