up2date from behind corporate firewall

[David Juran]

M A Young wrote:

> Currently the proxy settings are ignored for non-rhn up2dates.  If you are
> logged in as root, a work around is to set the http_proxy environment
> variable to point at your proxy.

setting the http_proxy environment variable only takes me part of the 
way. I've reported this bug in 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107036 a coupple of 
days ago. When sniffing the net, having the variable set, I can see 
up2date connecting through the proxy to xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com, but a 
little while later it still tries to look up ftp.redhat.com on the 
internal DNS, which fails.

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David Juran
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