[Yum] proxy not working - configured correctly?

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Terry wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:23 PM, James Antill <james-yum at and.org> wrote:
>       Terry <td3201 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>       > Hello,
>       >
>       > I have a single server that is giving me a fit.   It is a RHEL
>       5.3 box that
>       > was installed with no package groups, not even base, so a
>       minimal install.
>       >
>       > I have the following proxy configuration in yum.conf:
>       > proxy=http://server:3128/
>       > proxy_username=DOMAIN%5Cbar
>       > proxy_password=foo
> 
>  From that the latest yum (from 5.5 or upstream) would set a proxy for
> http, https and ftp of:
> 
> http://DOMAIN%5Cbar:foo@server:3128/?
> 
> ...does that look fine? Do you know what error you are getting?
> 
> --
> James Antill -- james at and.org
> _______________________________________________
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  I am using yum-3.2.22-26.el5.   I gave what you
> suggested a try.  Here's what my new config says:
> proxy=http://DOMAIN%5Cfoo:bar@server:3128
> 
> 
> [root at server network-scripts]# yum check-update
> Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
> There was an error communicating with RHN.
> RHN support will be disabled.
> Error communicating with server. The message was:
> Connection refused
> 
> I double checked my firewall logs and it is completely ignoring the proxy
> configuration because it is going directly to the Internet to get to RHN:
> Jun 24 23:30:44 10.98.1.1 %ASA-4-106023: Deny tcp src
> VLAN197:10.197.1.5/46109 dst outside:209.132.183.44/443 by access-group
> "VLAN197-in" [0x0, 0x0]
> 
> It's hitting RHN directly, not via proxy.
> 
>  

Hmm - well if you're using the rhnplugin then yum's communication being 
proxied has nothing to do with it.

what do you see in your rhn-plugin configuration?

specifically
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date

-sv