Up2date not working

[Thomas E. Dukes]

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have FC2 running on a machine inside our corporate 
> firewall.  The machine has no direct Internet access but must 
> use squid running on the firewall machine.  I started 
> up2date, and it went through the setup-process for a 
> first-time connection.  I pointed it at squid:3128 and it 
> seemed happy.
> However, when I tell it to go and start work, it puts up the 
> following process dialog:
> 
>    Fetching 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-
> 2/headers/header.info
> 
> and sits there on a permanent basis.  Monitoring the network, 
> there is no traffic and the squid log doesn't report any 
> attempt to actually make the access.
> 
> What gives ?

It might not be a squid problem as I had a similar problem on the first
update attempt.

I changed /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to a different mirror and things
updated.  Your mileage may vary.