On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 07:14, Homer wrote: > 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. > Could you spare some knowledge on the proceedure when using tcpdump and what I am supposed to be looking for please?
