<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">El Miercoles, 26 de Abril de 2006 16:29, Nader Mirzaee escribio: [...] > [root@localhost ~]# wget > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repodat >a/repomd.xml Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name. Oh! You're behind a proxy? If it is so... then you have to define it in /etc/yum.conf proxy=http://ADDRESS_TO_YOUR_PROXY:PROXY_PORT If not, then you must unable the $PROXY var (or something like that), to avoid the proxy. </blockquote>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i have a dual boot machine , in windows XP i ping yahoo and this is the answer: Pinging www.yahoo.akadns.net [68.142.197.82] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 68.142.197.82: bytes=32 time=367ms TTL=53 Reply from 68.142.197.82: bytes=32 time=377ms TTL=53 Reply from 68.142.197.82: bytes=32 time=370ms TTL=53 Reply from 68.142.197.82: bytes=32 time=367ms TTL=52 Ping statistics for 68.142.197.82: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 367ms, Maximum = 377ms, Average = 370ms if i was behind proxy it would not work .please tell me more about unable the $PROXY var thanx <hr size=1><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman3/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39666/*http://beta.messenger.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.</a> PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.