On 10/19/2015 05:12 PM, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: > Our outsourced IT department has decided to use white listing on the firewalls for outbound ftp. I was given a list of sites our lab had accessed via ftp and eventually tracked them down to Linux machines running yum. They are all CentOS 5 or 6 with a smattering of 7. It is impractical to list all the possibilities since they change on a regular basis. Also any 3rd party repos we need are another ball of wax. > > > > Various Google searches and the manual page have not shown me how to avoid using ftp mirrors. I have considered taking out the ftp-proxy information so that the ftp cannot get out, but I suspect it will just hang waiting for a response. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions on ways to tell yum not to use ftp as the download mechanism? > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > Bob > FWIW, my Centos 7 install doesn't have ftp installed and yum has no apparent issues. I also, mainly, use Fedora (22 currently) and it hasn't had ftp installed for a long time. Of course it uses dnf now, not yum. HTH > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Roger Wells, P.E. leidos 221 Third St Newport, RI 02840 401-847-4210 (voice) 401-849-1585 (fax) roger.k.wells at leidos.com