[Yum] RedHat blocking previously infected hosts ?

[Wim Godden]

Troy Dawson wrote:

> > I gave questions you didn't answer, but maybe I wasn't clear enough.
> >
> > Please follow these steps.  For steps 1 and 2 provide the output in
> > your next email.
> >
> > 1. wget http://www.google.com
> > 2. wget http://www.redhat.com
> > 3. post your yum.conf and yum.repos.d entries
> >
>
> Well, if your network is anything like my network here, then you are
> sending mail to completely the wrong e-mail list.
>
> yum isn't the problem, your networking is the problem.
>
> You need to send e-mail to your networking group, or ISP, or whoever you
> get your networking through, and tell them that they can stop blocking
> your machine now that you've fixed the virus/webbot problem.
>
> Why?
> Because lot's of place really don't like infected machines, and they get
> blocked.  At least here, you have to go to the networking people, and
> computer security people, and prove to them that your machine is no
> longer infected with whatever it was before they will unblock it.

Believe me, the network is not the problem. I can connect anywhere without any
problems... only the main RedHat site is unreachable... and only from THIS system,
not from systems on the same subnet.

Kind regards,

Wim