>From my Centos machine the dns lookup works fine, I can resolve the mirrorlist/baseurl domains. Yes, I can authenticate with this proxy from the centos machine in firefox. I have tried to authenticate me, first from firefox and then I have executed yum, but the proxy refuse authentication..... Yes, I have just tried ntlm software, but, again, the proxy refuse my authentication. Regards Paolo ---------- Initial Header ----------- >From : yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To : "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc : Date : Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:08:43 +1000 Subject : Re: proxy isa server > paolovg@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hello Dave, > > I have two various behaviors...... > > I am using centos 4.5 Operanting system. > > > > If I execute the command "yum update" I obtain this message error: > > ----------- > > > > Setting up Update Process > > Setting up repositories > > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update > > Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: update > About 9 months ago yum had a problem with proxies, where the client > machine had to have working dns for the proxy to work. I know this got > improved at the time, but I may have seen a message on the list > indicating further problems. > > Basically the yum code would dns lookup the mirrorlist/baseurl domains, > then connect to the proxy and request the URL using the looked up > number. At my site this wouldn't work because no machines are actually > allowed to do the DNS lookup. At the time I could workaround it by > supplying the proxy address and URLs as IP numbers. > > yum has a debug parameter -d, so try > yum -d 15 update > should give more useful messages about what is happening. > > > (The software up2date on Centos use yum?) > I think it does past version 3. > > > My proxy settings from yum.conf: > > > > ------------- > > > > proxy=http://proxy.domainname:8080/ > > proxy_username=domainname\user > > proxy_password=password > > Can you authenticate with this proxy from the centos machine in firefox ? > I wonder if you could ~trick the proxy by authenticating from the web > browser, and then running yum afterwards ? > Did you find the http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq ? > And if you tried it, how did you set up: > http://ntlmaps.sourceforge.net/ > > DaveT > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > ------------------------------------------------------ Scegli infostrada: ADSL gratis per tutta l?estate e telefoni senza canone Telecom http://click.libero.it/infostrada _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
