seth vidal wrote:
>>>Seems to have just started when I did an update this
>>>last weekend. Took about 1/2 hour just to download
>>>header info, previous to last weekend never had this problem.
>>
>>I've always had the problem, I've almost come to just accept it as a yum
>>thing. It happened to me all the time on FC2, too.
>>
>>Though it is true that this past weekend seems to have been particularly
>>bad.
>
>
> It's not 'just a yum thing'. There are lots and lots of users of yum out
> there w/o any problem like this. I know, I've heard from them.
>
> However, the problem of stalling on downloads is most often related to
> transparent proxies.
I don't deny there are probably lots of folks without the problem
(though I don't actually know). It may be related to transparent
proxies, but there must be other causes too. Because I've done the yum
thing on very diverse networks (UCLA, UCLA Medical, CalPOP, Verizon DSL,
Adelphia Cable, etc.) and I've seen the behavior on all of them, and I'd
be surprised if they were *all* using transparent proxies -- though
*some* probably are.
Not really offering a solution or any definitive statements, just
sharing my experience (as I believe Matt Bottrell had asked folks to do).
johnn
