smart proxy not working correctly?

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Hi Grant,

> I have a situation where there are a lot of mobile machines that roam inside
> and outside of a network. When they're inside the network they need to
> connect to an http/ftp proxy in order to access the outside. Setting this is
> easy in smart (smart config --set http-proxy=
> http://proxy.example-company.com:8080). The problem is sometimes these
> machines are on the outside of the network and the proxy isn't available to
> them ( proxy.example-company.com is a DNS name only available inside the
> network).

I'm not sure I understand what the real issue is.  What I understood from
your description is that you have a proxy setup, and when the proxy setup
is right Smart works, but when it's wrong Smart doesn't.

Can you please enlighten me about the actual issue?

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Gustavo Niemeyer
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