On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 14:53 -0500, Jim Canfield wrote: > On Tue, 2005-06-09 at 13:22 -0500, Jim Canfield wrote: > >> I would if I had control over the device. Talked to the sysadmin, and > >> he states it on the most current version. Just bothers me that yum is > >> the only app that has these issues. Is there some kind of network > > >trace I can run to more accurately troubleshoot the problem? > > >To work, yum needs to be able to do HTTP ranges, which your proxy seems > >to, well, not so much support. See: > > >https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > > > > That jsut the thing, there is no proxy. When I run the trace the "dries" address, for example, using the following: > > echo -e "TRACE / HTTP/1.1\nHost: ftp.belnet.be\n\n" | nc ftp.belnet.be 80 > > It simply returns to the shell promt w/o displaying the existance of aynthing between me and the server. > yes, that's how a transparent proxy works. -sv