On 07/03/2018 07:04 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 3:07 PM Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com > <mailto:hobbes1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 2:58 PM Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com > <mailto:ri...@alldigital.com>> wrote: > > On 07/03/2018 11:44 AM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > I know the default answer, don't double nat, but in this case > what I'm > > doing is that I have a wireless travel router with WISP and I > am using > > it to create my own private & secured network behind a public > network. > > > > Web browsing works fine but when I try to perform a "dnf > update" I get a > > "Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates'." > > > > Since it's simple download, i,e, not a complicated connection > like a > > VPN. I don't know why it wouldn't work, but it apparently does > not. > > A) Are you using a proxy? If so, have you added the appropriate > config > lines to /etc/dnf/dnf.conf (proxy IP, username, password)? > > > Need to double check that, I did setup a squid proxy on my desktop > but I'm not sure if I have the laptop setup to use it or not... Good > idea. > > > Just to confirm, I did have the laptop setup to use the squid proxy on > my desktop so that was indeed the cause of the problem.
Glad you got that sorted out. Just for the sake of completeness on the thread, how did you resolve it? Did you add the lines to dnf.conf to access your proxy properly? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - If Windows isn't a virus, then it sure as hell is a carrier! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/APUDLZBWCSQXROWHX5U5EVUB3LF36NFU/
