Yum / Up2date issues and mirror.centos.org

[mail-lists at karan.org (Karanbir Singh)]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 10:14, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
> 
>>It isn't proxy servers in general, just some implementations that don't
>>work well.
>>
>>I am using squid on my network and I get updates through it for 10
>>machines with no problems.
>>
>>A transparent proxy is one where ports are routed behind the scenes and
>>there is no setup file.
> 
> 
> Squid is frequently used as a transparent proxy by adding an iptables
> rule on the machine acting as the default gateway to redirect all
> outbound port 80 packets to port 3128 on the squid host - or localhost
> if squid runs on the same box.  I don't have one set up now to see if
> there is a problem with squid in that configuration.  If you know the
> proxy address/port, you can work around easily with the shell's
> command line export of variables to a program.
> http_proxy=proxy.domain:port ftp_proxy=proxy.domain:port yum update
> 

Proxy can also be specified in the yum.conf file's [main] section , 
required keywords :

proxy              url to the proxy server that yum should use.

proxy_username     username to use for proxy

proxy_password     password for this proxy