<HTML><HEAD><META content="text/html; charset=x-user-defined" http-equiv="Content-Type"><style type="text/css"></style></HEAD><BODY>Hello Mr. Justin Yes, we are using proxy server to access the internet. Moreover, I am not able to access the RNN server as I am getting connection timed out error message from <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC">http://www.xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC</A>. server. with kind regards s.mahalingam S.Mahalingam Bioinformatics Centre Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Habsiguda, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007 Ph:+91-40-27192773, 27192774 +91-40-27160222 - 41 (20 Lines) Ext: 2773, 2774 Fax: :+91-40-27160591, 27160311 E-mail: smal@ccmb.res.in smal8@yahoo.com http://www.ccmb.res.in <TABLE STYLE="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: blue; BORDER-LEFT: blue 1px solid; BORDER-TOP-COLOR: blue; BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR: blue"> <tbody> <TR> <TD>-- Original Message -- From: Justin Sherrill <jsherril@redhat.com> To: "Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)" <rhn-users@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:07:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [rhn-users] update issue Hi, 1) Are you using an http proxy? If so, is it configured properly in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date ? 2) If not, are you able to run: # telnet xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com 443 successfully? This should test network connectivity to RHN's server. Justin Mahalingam Subramaniam wrote: > Hello All > > Invariably and consistently there is an error message while l try to > update the OS - RHEL AS 3 (Taroon Update3), as follows: > > https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC > https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC > https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC > https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC > https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC > Error communicating with server. The message was: > Connection timed out......... > > Could anybody figure out what could be the cause? I have been using > both "up2date and yum" with various flags but it is futile.... Many > more thanks in advance............. > > with more thanks > michael albertina > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > rhn-users mailing list > rhn-users@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list rhn-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users </TD> </TR> </tbody> </TABLE> </BODY></HTML>