Software Update causing proxy traffic

[Lindsay Robertso]

Hi, we have sus running on our xserve.

The SU clients have been hammering our proxy server.
Each time a client checks for updates, the traffic goes through the proxy.

Why is this?

I removed the proxy servers address from the ‘Router’ field of the Network pane in the system preferences.

This solved that problem, and made teh updates go much faster, but causes problems with people trying to pop mail from external servers.

Does any know of a better fix?

l.

[Lindsay Robertso]

Ahh, thanks that sorted it.

I had our network, (ournet.ourcountry.com) in there, I assumed that all servers in that domain would bypass the proxy…

[dds]

Joel: If Lindsay already had an IP range or domain in the proxy exception list configured on the Mac clients would she really need to explicitly list the SUS server too?

Examples:

*local, 10.1.1/24, *.ournet.ourcountry.com

If your SUS server fell into any of the above network topologies, why would you need to add the SUS server explicitly?

Example: lets say your SUS server was had the FQDN “sus.ournet.ourcountry.com” and had the IP of 10.1.1.100, would it need to be explicitly listed as a proxy exception?

If you have a proxy server, couldnt you put the exception in the proxy server config rather than locally? (i.e.; allow direct LAN access to the SUS server’s IP or host name)

Thanks!

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