up2date crash error -2

[duncan brown]

Marc Siegel said:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os//headers/header.info...
> There was some sort of I/O error: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service
> not known')>

can you use wget to download something after exporting $http_proxy?

also, why not use yum?  it always worked with me when i used $http_proxy

-d

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