Why does yum contact www.redhat.com each time it is run? I maintain a local yum repository so there is no requirement to access any external hosts. I also require all web traffic to go via a non-transparent proxy and without setting the http_proxy environment variable, yum just sits there and does nothing. How do I turn this off and if anyone can explain why it would need to talk to www.redhat.com that would also be great. Thanks, Andrew
