[CentOS] Yum through a proxy

Vic Chester vcsubscriptions at gmail.com
Fri Nov 9 15:10:44 UTC 2018


Good to know I am not the only one. I imagine since many environments use
proxies these days, this is encountered more frequently.

Would be great to hear from the devs on this.

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 9:41 AM Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch wrote:

> > I have configured yum to use a proxy via the yum.conf file by adding:
> >
> > proxy=http://myproxy.com:8080/
> >
> > What I noticed when running yum check-up date is that some requests are
> > going through the proxy while the system seems to be trying to resolve
> the
> > domains of other hosts in the repo and trying to establish direct
> > connections to them instead of going through the proxy.
> >
> > Can anyone explain this behavior?
>
> It seems to me that yum is not 100% proxy aware. IIRC I also saw some
> requests which shouldn't go where they went.
>
> Simon
>
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