Rodolfo, > You said the hub can be pinged from all nodes. Ok, but icmp does not > work on proxy. Try reaching this servers with proxyed lynx from your > proxy and your nodes. Could be a DNS issue. The hub can ping all the nodes by name and IP; the nodes can ping the hub by name and IP. # up2date -v -u --proxy=http://localhost:3128 on the hub works fine. # nslookup > fedora.redhat.com Server: 192.168.1.63 Address: 192.168.1.63#53 Non-authoritative answer: fedora.redhat.com canonical name = www.redhat.com. Name: www.redhat.com Address: 209.132.177.50 > works OK on all the nodes. Lynx works happily on all the nodes. The update progress on all the hubs: # up2date -v -u --proxy=http://192.168.1.63:3128 produces: http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-2 http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1271, in ? sys.exit(main() or 0) ... File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 326, in open '_open', req) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 306, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 901, in http_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTP, req) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 886, in do_open raise URLError(err) urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (101, 'Network is unreachable')> # Jonathan