From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i586) Description of problem: When ever I run up2date I get an error message that it fails to connect to the server. "PROXY ERROR" I have tried turning off my firewall and get the same message. My system is connected directly.. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.up2date 2. 3. Additional info:
Are you behind a proxy server? If so you need to configure the proxy settings for rhn_register and up2date. Using the "--configure" option will allow you to set these settings up. It is also possible that you are behind a transparent proxy. Some ISP's set this up so that all http traffic gets redirected through a web proxy. However, the client should be able to handle this properly. What version of the up2date client are you seeing this error message with? rpm -q up2date will show you the version of the client. version 2.5.4 and up should be able to handle transparent proxies correctly.
closing, no response. As far as I know, all proxy related issues with supported releases are cleared up.