up2date connects to xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com? necessary?

[William Hooper]

Rainer Traut said:
> Hi,
> my fedora pc is only allowed to connect
> to the repositories I configure in ../rhn/sources.
>
> But it seems up2date hangs if it cannot connect to
> xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com

I just took an Ethereal trace of both text and gnome up2date runs against
my local mirrors and see nothing going to <anything>.redhat.com.  Was this
an install that was upgraded from a previous RH version?

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William Hooper