> -Original Message-
> From: Styma, Robert E (Robert) [mailto:robert.st...@alcatel-lucent.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 5:12 PM
> To: CentOS@centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] Can I force yum to only use http.
>
> Our outsourced IT department has decided to use
On 10/20/2015 01:53 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> configure your external gateway firewall to REJECT (not DROP) any
> outbound ftp, and yum will quickly move onto other protocols.
You should be able to accomplish the same thing by configuring your
local firewall to REJECT the packets before the reach
Hello Robert,
On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 21:12 +, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
> Various Google searches and the manual page have not shown me how to
> avoid using ftp mirrors.
When configuring your repo's using baseurl= instead of mirrorlist= you
can pin the server being used. Find a http mirr
On 10/19/2015 2:46 PM, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
If I understand you correctly, if I uninstall the ftp client, yum will not use
it as it cannot. Is this the case? I had assumed that the code underlying yum
had its own stack for dealing withftp://... urls.
no, thats quite wrong.yum
>
> FWIW, my Centos 7 install doesn't have ftp installed and yum has no
> apparent issues.
>
> I also, mainly, use Fedora (22 currently) and it hasn't had ftp
> installed for a long time. Of course it uses dnf now, not yum.
>
If I understand you correctly, if I uninstall the ftp client, yum w
On 10/19/2015 2:52 PM, Yamaban wrote:
Setting up a proxy that gives a "404"/deny on ftp:// is more helpful
here.
or a simple REJECT on outbound port 21 (FTP).
404 is a http error, not of much use here.
--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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On 10/19/2015 05:12 PM, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
> Our outsourced IT department has decided to use white listing on the
> firewalls for outbound ftp. I was given a list of sites our lab had accessed
> via ftp and eventually tracked them down to Linux machines running yum. They
> are all
Our outsourced IT department has decided to use white listing on the firewalls
for outbound ftp. I was given a list of sites our lab had accessed via ftp and
eventually tracked them down to Linux machines running yum. They are all
CentOS 5 or 6 with a smattering of 7. It is impractical to lis
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