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