[Yum] yum and proxy...

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 10:42, Boex,Matthew W. wrote:
> seth,
> 
> thanks.  i forgot... i did try that one too.  i just retried with your proxy setting and got this error...
> 
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 7.3 base
> Error getting file 
> http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/7.3/i3                                               
> 86/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno socket error] nonnumeric port

from what I can tell from doing some searches regarding python and these
types of errors it is a bug in python 1.5.2 which was not resolved until
python 2.1.2

so - you could take the route of updating to a newer python/rhl/etc and
see if the problem goes away, I bet it will.

-sv