yum repos configured to use only ftp mirrors

[John Summerfied]

Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 08:30 -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> 
>>Get a civilized proxy server (SQUID?).
> 
> 
> I have squid running on my network, but I find it causes it's own
> problems (see below).  I'm on dial-up, so I liked the idea of having a
> caching proxy so that I can quickly fetch the same stuff on different
> terminals.
> 
> Multi-tab browsing with Firefox becomes unusable.  The browser locks up
> while waiting for one tab to finish getting what it's getting through
> the proxy.  You can't start something coming in, then read and browse
> around what's in another tab.

That's nothing to do with Squid: at work I have a firewall rule that 
forces all outgoing traffic to 80/tcp through squid. Firefox and Mozilla 
  and konquere and Safari are all fine with this.

> 
> The Windows boxes can't update AVG through it, they time out and fail
> after the first part of the download.

Internet exploder must be configured to use the proxy. Everything else 
just works.




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