Hi,

I've installed Fedora 9 on my Dell Inspiron 1525 leptop at work and I'm accessing Internet through the local network with private IP address range (subnet 192.168.1.0) via wired connection (haven't even tried configuring wireless connection).

Now, while I am able to connect to the Internet and browse certain web pages using Firefox with manual proxy configuration (since we're connected to the Internet through squid), there are pages I'm unable to browse (e.g, gmail.com - I get "Connecting to www.google.com..." loading hangs there, the same thing happens with Yahoo mail,...). Browsing of these pages works from Windows.

Now, this thing regarding browsing the Internet shouldn't be a proxy issue (since everybody else in the network is able to access aforementioned pages, though they are all using Windows), there are two more network problems.

When I try to browse Windows network via Dolphin, I get:


Could not connect to host for smb://smb-network/


Not even when I try smb://workgroup/ (which is the name of the windows workgroup).I am able to ping Windows hosts from F9, and to access hosts individually in the WORKGROUP, but cannot browse the entire Windows network at once.
Browsing the network works from Windows on the same machine.

Also, not Yum, nor any other of the system default Software update managers seem to work.

Since all these things work in Windows, I suppose there are some things in this network my Fedora 9 isn't getting along very well with.

All help you can offer in resolving these problems is appreciated.

This sounds more like an issue with DNS (either resolution or caching), than with your proxy.

If you can't get to www.google.com by name, how about it with one of their server's IPs?

http://64.233.167.99/

To configure your DNS in Fedora9 use "system-config-bind"

If not, then try checking your squid server's logs.

DNS was never an issue... The problem was in https... had to make Firefox use proxy for all protocols. The same thing was problem with yum.

I fixed the problem by adding the line in /etc/yum.conf

PROXY=ip-addressort