Wojciech Pilorz wrote: > If I run yum-fastestmirror in such environment, /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt > contains 99999999999 in each entry (as direct connect to remote site > always fails). > So yum still does work, just the timing information is useless. This is interesting, so fastest mirror is unable to connect to a remote host where yum itself is able to connect to the same machine with no change in proxy knowledge ? Is that what you are saying here. If so, I'd really like to look into this. > It seems CentOS mirrorlist returned to yum contains not more than 10-15 > entries, so this should not be a problem (if the number of mirrors > yum gets is always that low on CentOS). The centos mirrorlist side will try and give you a small set of mirrors, all of which should work for your given IP. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq