dave wrote: > hi all > > just a quick question, i'm having an issue with yum, and my firewall setup > > i'm using fedora core 4, and the standard yum that is installed (2.4.1) > > when i have my firewall on, yum can't access the repositories > but it works when i turn my firewall off How do you turn the FW on / off ? > my iptables looks like ... > can anyone tell me what the problem is? I find it easier to read: # service iptables status Would you post that instead ? Anyway, yum will use ftp and http urls (and possibly on non-standard ports - whatever is in the mirrorlist). Make sure you can access at least some of them from your web-browser... DaveT.
