[Yum] Proxy settings are ignored - Resolved in 2.6.1-0.fc5

[David Timms]

David Timms wrote:
> Michael Stenner wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 03:33:42PM +1000, David Timms wrote:
>>> OK, the machine tries to directly dns lookup the address of the AAAA 
>>> record of fedora.redhat.com, then A of the same. Within our network, 
>>> only the proxy machine is allowed to do this, so yum never gets dns 
>>> answers.
>>
>> Are you doing ftp or http?
> it's using default fedora-updates.repo etc.
> mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/downlo ....etc
> proxy=http://192.168.2.2:80/
> 
> I think there is a mix of ftp and http inside that mirrorlist.
> 
>> In grepping through urllib2.py, I see
>> where the ftp code does a lookup, but I don't see where one happens
>> for http.  
> Maybe it's in the code to get the mirrorlist ?
> 
>> Now, many proxies don't handle http byteranges well (a
>> feature yum uses and a reason we generally recommend ftp behind a
>> proxy) so you may be SOL.  If it's a dns problem that's getting you,
>> can you plug in the IP address directly?
> for both tests in fedora-updates.repo: changed mirrorlist= 
> fedora.redhat.com to ip from dig: 209.132.177.50
> note: the baseurl is commented out (default)!
> 
...
> 
> On fedora forum I found a post where someone was messing with there 
> environment variables (and then needing to do that in the root 
> environment) to get proxy stuff to work. This may have been telling the 
> machine it had to use a proxy no matter what!. I would have assumed the 
> only thing needed was the proxy value in the .repo file ?
I noticed that FC5 test update to yum-2.6.1-0.fc5 mentioned some proxy 
items. I installed this, and with the yum.conf proxy setting enabled (to 
an ip number), and dns disabled, I can now update with yum / pup without 
any problem (on two machines).

Thanks, for these subtle advances, DaveT.