[Yum] Weird: IOError: <urlopen error (-2 Name.. but yumex works!!!

[Alan Robert Clark]

seth vidal wrote:
> 
> which is why I asked if there was a proxy definition involved somewhere
> b/c it might be being picked up  by those other applications (and maybe
> by yumex) but not by yum.
> 
> -sv
Nope. Edit/Preferences/General/Connection Settings/Direct Connection to 
the Internet on Firefox. Like I said: its wierd :-)

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