On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 3:07 PM Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 2:58 PM Rick Stevens
<ricks(a)alldigital.com> wrote:
> On 07/03/2018 11:44 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > I know the default answer, don't double nat, but in this case what I'm
> > doing is that I have a wireless travel router with WISP and I am using
> > it to create my own private & secured network behind a public network.
>
> > Web browsing works fine but when I try to perform a
"dnf update" I get a
> > "Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates'."
>
> > Since it's simple download, i,e, not a
complicated connection like a
> > VPN. I don't know why it wouldn't work, but it apparently does not.
> A) Are you using a proxy? If so, have you added the
appropriate config
> lines to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf (proxy IP, username, password)?
Need to double check that, I did setup a squid proxy on my desktop but I'm
not sure if I have the laptop setup to use it or not... Good idea.
Just to confirm, I did have the laptop setup to use the squid proxy on my
desktop so that was indeed the cause of the problem.
Thanks,
Richard