[Yum] Unable to configure YUM through a proxy server

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 15:39 -0400, Smith, Christopher wrote:
> All: 
> 
> I'm a Fedora newbie and I'm currently trying to configure YUM to go
> through a proxy server. I've followed the direction via the Fedora site
> but I'm still having no success here is the error: 
> 
> [root at linuxdesktop etc]#vi yum.conf 
> 
> [main]
> Cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> Keepcache=0
> Debuglevel=2
> Logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> Pkgpolicy=newest
> Distroverpkg=redhat-release
> Tolerant=1
> Exactarch=1
> Obsoletes=1
> Gpgcheck=1
> Plugins=1
> Metadata_expire=1800
> 
> # The proxy server entry
> 
> Proxy=http://<myproxyip>
> Proxy_username=user
> Proxy_password=password
> 
> # PUT YOU REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
> #in /etc/yum.repos.d
> 
> The error is: 
> 
> [Errno 4] Ioerror: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
> Trying other mirror. 
> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository:core
> 
> Do you have any answers to help with this problem. 
> 

Are all of those really capitalized?

-sv