[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk client - yum - proxy behavior

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 06:50:06PM +0100, Jan Arild Lindstrøm wrote:
> 
> 3)
> 
> lintest3-virt(root) ~ 34# yum update
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin, security
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: centos6-x86_64. Please verify its path and try again
> 
> ( - "yum update" starts here - )
> 14:20:33.362368 IP 10.10.0.62.51822 > 10.10.30.183.8080: tcp 0
> 14:20:33.375652 IP 10.10.30.183.8080 > 10.10.0.62.51822: tcp 0
> 14:20:33.375852 IP 10.10.0.62.51822 > 10.10.30.183.8080: tcp 0
> 14:20:33.377344 IP 10.10.0.62.51822 > 10.10.30.183.8080: tcp 627
> 14:20:33.377522 IP 10.10.0.62.51822 > 10.10.30.183.8080: tcp 1380
> 14:20:33.378321 IP 10.10.30.183.8080 > 10.10.0.62.51822: tcp 0
> --cut--
> 14:20:33.402821 IP 10.10.0.62.51822 > 10.10.30.183.8080: tcp 0
> 14:20:33.402825 IP 10.10.30.183.8080 > 10.10.0.62.51822: tcp 467
> 14:20:33.402829 IP 10.10.0.62.51822 > 10.10.30.183.8080: tcp 0
> 14:20:33.402846 IP 10.10.30.183.8080 > 10.10.0.62.51822: tcp 0
> 14:20:33.406011 IP 10.10.0.62.51822 > 10.10.30.183.8080: tcp 0
> 14:20:33.406976 IP 10.10.30.183.8080 > 10.10.0.62.51822: tcp 0
> 14:20:33.460341 IP 10.10.0.62.50796 > 10.10.0.60.80: tcp 0
> 14:20:36.460258 IP 10.10.0.62.50796 > 10.10.0.60.80: tcp 0
> 14:20:42.460278 IP 10.10.0.62.50796 > 10.10.0.60.80: tcp 0
> --cut--
> 
> Proxy = 10.10.30.183
> Spacewalk server = 10.10.0.62

Is it possible that it's actually

	Spacewalk client = 10.10.0.62
	Proxy = 10.10.30.183
	Spacewalk server 10.10.0.60

?

Can you do more tcpdumping to see what are the HTTP requests that are
being sent directly?

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat