up2date: Network is Unreachable

[Jonathan Allen]

John,

> Can you run tcpdump on the path twixt up2date box and Red Hat's site and see 
> what the traffic is?
> 
> On my LAN my squid proxy is on 9.4 but 9.1 or even 7.253 are on the path out 
> and see traffic 9.4 doesn't so in my case those would be on the path whether 
> the proxy's used or not.
> 
> A good alternative to tcpdump in your case is strace.
> 
> strace -f -q -o poxy-trace <more options> -e trace=<stuff> up2date etc

Thank you for this extra suggestion, but one of your colleagues solved
the problem earlier: the consolehelper bug that strips out the proxy
information when up2date is called in an 'su' context without explicitly
specifying the full path.

Jonathan