[Yum] proxy not working - configured correctly?

[Terry]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

>
>
> 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
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Default configuration which is proxy disabled and no configuration for it.
Expected but, again, none of my other machines have this file configured.
Only main yum.conf.
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