On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 22:40, Chadley Wilson wrote: > Well I have been trying for the past three weeks every mirro on the > planet and every sugestion I have been give on this list and glug yum, > up2date and apt dont work they all hang. Yes Iam behing a firewall and a > proxy, I have a username and password for the proxy and the firewall > [same usename and pass] but nothing works. What type of firewall? If you can't run any diagnostics on it, have you tried tcpdump on your local machine and see what's going on? I'm no expert by a long shot, but I can usually figure out what the problem is, and if not, there's a mess of knowledgeable people here.. Don't get the answer you need here, the join the yum/apt mailing list and ask there.. There's a bunch of help out there, but sometimes you have to hunt a little for the person with the answer.. If you've tried the normal way of accessing through a proxy, and it doesn't work, I would suggest joining the yum or apt mailing list, and speak with the developers about it.. I've run into some strange things with some of these commercial firewalls.. That's why I don't sell them, I build them using Linux.. Then I know what I have to work with.. -- Homer Parker /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign BOFH for homershut.net \ / No HTML/RTF in email http://www.homershut.net x No Word docs in email telnet://bbs.homershut.net / \ Respect for open standards "Bill Gates reports on security progress made and the challenges ahead." -- Microsoft's Homepage, on the day an SQL Server bug crippled large sections of the Internet.
