Re: D'oh! another dumb question

[Steve Tickle <nospam [at] quarndon.co.uk>]

At 17:37 25/01/00 +0000, you wrote:
>sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
>
>On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Steve Tickle wrote:
>
> > I'm running Mandrake 6.0 and want to check for updates but when I run
> > MandrakeUpdate it fails to get a list of mirrors. I'm behind a firewall
> but
> > Nutscrape is set up OK and works. What am I doing wrong/haven't I done?
>
>Does N/S use a proxy server, or does the firewall let through http? It
>could be that it only blocks certain ports, that's probably be the
>problem.
>
>Cheers,

Yep, Nutscape uses a proxy server on port 3128. If anyone can tell me which
port MandrakeUpdate wants to use I can map it through the firewall/proxy
server, maybe that would fix it.

Steve

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