Hello, I've got a centos5 box that is now behind a what was transparent squid proxy. The proxy now has it's own dedicated ip and uses proxy basic authentication. I've got a firewall that redirects all outgoing port 80 traffic to that ip so anyone wishing access goes proxied. The problem is yum on my centos5 can't retrieve the .xml files for the various yum repositories. In the squid access.log on the router i'm seeing invalid request method. This means that the box isn't yet talking proxy and is still trying to go through direct. To my yum.conf file i added lines similar to these:
# The proxy server - proxy server:port number proxy=http://mycache.mydomain.com:3128 # The account details for yum connections proxy_username=yum-user proxy_password=qwerty
I tried port 80 on that proxy line with the same results. Telneting to that ip/port works fine, iptables isn't blocking it. On the firewall i added the yum-user to the password file and used squid's ncsa_auth program to confirm the username/password combination, output was a simple "ok". On the centos5 box i did a service network restart, which didn't work, yum update gave me the same error. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave.