Arch Linux

NO2

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Registered: 2009-03-29

Posts: 2

need help with proxy settings

i am new to archlinux.
i configured my network, as well as the proxy
export http_proxy="http://10.3.100.211:8080"
export ftp_proxy="ftp://10.3.100.211:8080"

but i still get no result when i ping google.com
i am able to ping local addresses.
i did include the above commands in my .bashrc file.

dschrute

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-04-09

Posts: 183

Re: need help with proxy settings

http_proxy and ftp_proxy are just that...http and ftp.  Not ICMP ( ping ).  So it makes sense that ping would not work through, or even know about those proxy settings.  To test via the shell, try wget.

NO2

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Registered: 2009-03-29

Posts: 2

Re: need help with proxy settings

i tried wget google.com
i got: resolving http........
connecting to googlle.com <ip>:<port> failed, connection refused

what should i do?