What URLs to allow in firewall for suse_register and zypper

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES Configure-Administer
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I’m working in an environment that only allows outgoing Internet access
through their ISA proxy server.
Unfortunately the do not allow basic authentication to the ISA, only NTLM.

I haven’t been able to get the Yast proxy to work with the ISA (perhaps
someone has a solution to this) and therefore they decided to allow
outgoing Internet access from the SLES servers to only the needed domains;
secure.novell.com
nu.novell.com
download.opensuse.org

However this doesn’t seem to be sufficient as it’s not possible to register
new machines with NCC. Looking at a packet trace it seems it also
needs to access a akamai solution. Does someone know what exact
servers are used for the akamai solution?

I’m also aware there is the SMT, once the install grows beyond todays 3
servers I’m planning to set this up in the environment.

Thx

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Hi
You need to populate proxy setting in YAST and to add two lines
with your proxy information to /etc/profile, for example:

export http_proxy=“http://10.10.1.1:8081/”
export https_proxy=“https://10.10.1.1:8081/”

As well as the /root/.curlrc

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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Thx, I’ll try that out. Any ideas as to my other question?

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Hi
I asked my SUSE contacts and the use of the Akamai caching technology
shouldn’t affect you proxy issue.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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Thanks Malcolm,

I understand that. My question however, was that as we can not get the proxy to work
(we get a 502 error), I need to specify which servers the SLES boxes needs to talk
to for suse_register and patching to work. As Novell/SUSE is using the Akamai is
there a possibility to get a list of which servers is part of that?
The FW team only allows Internet access through either the proxy or to a list of
trusted domains.