Dennis Wicks: > Jochen Schulz wrote the following on 10/12/2008 08:06 AM: >> >> To me that looks like you have a http_proxy environment variable set. I >> think Synaptic and aptitude honour that. Or you have set the >> corresponding option in apt.conf. > > Thanks for the pointer! That was the problem, although I have no idea > where the settings came from as I don't have to use proxies.
Do you have anon-proxy (JAP) installed? I think it uses 4001/tcp by
default. Maybe it "advertizes" its service by setting these environment
variables. I'd simply grep /etc for 4001 to find the culprit. :)
J.
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