Schneider, Silvio wrote: > Our admin has recently installed a proxy. All traffic to the internet > must now pass the HTTP proxy. > The only open port to the outside world is 8080. > > I have added a proxy line in yum.conf, but it doesn't work. ?!? ... > [main] > proxy=http://10.100.100.99:8080 > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > debuglevel=2 ... > Webrowser and so on works. So no general network problems. > My yum version: > # rpm -q yum > yum-2.4.0-0.fc4 Proxy settings were not working for me somewhere in yum/urlgrabber for Fedora Core 5; problem was that each machine was not allowed to do dns lookups, instead they have to request the full host+url from the proxy. In the last few months there has been an update. I tested after update was released {yum-2.6.1-0.fc5}, and it works fine now. Many of the proxy related bugs/rfe's have had work since the version you are using. DaveT.
