Software Update Server with Proxy

IIRC, SUS should work fine through a proxy.

That said, if you want to bypass the proxy, your settings are incorrect. You specify the hostname of the servers to bypass, not the entire URL. Therefore you should enter FQDN in the 'Bypass' field, not 'http://FQDN:8088/'

SUS will not function through a proxy that requires authentication. If you want this to work without tearing your hair out, you must configure your proxy server to allow the IP address of _*the server that is running SUS*_ to be allowed to bypass the proxy server or to have the IP address of _*the server that is running SUS*_ be whitelisted in the proxy server configuration for outbound requests. You cannot whitelist the IP addresses of the Apple SUS masters as they can and do change. Often.

Users on this thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2047169&tstart=0

have been battling this at their sites with respect to proxy servers and SUS. One proposed solution -that has yet to be proven- is to use a program called ' Authoxy'. This software seems to have been written with client systems in mind and nowhere is it documented to work -or not work- properly with OS X Server.

What you want to achieve here is a bypass of the proxy -and since you're using an 8e6 device you'll want to bypass that, also- which will require some changes to the configuration so that your server's IP number and FQDN are not subject to the rules on the proxy. The configuration of the 8e6 device would have to go along the same lines. Allow all access to any Apple URLs and networks from the server's IP and FQDN.

The other thing that might have to be done is to turn off any 'content accelerators' or caching engines on a selective basis -if that's even possible with the Novell device. Sometimes caching engines can cause downloads to not complete properly -which would indicate a problem with the cache controller- which can cause the server to fail on downloads of packages.

Same problem here, we have been running it through a proxy since 10.5, and now not sure whether it was 10.5.7 or 10.5.8 or some update in between, but the server will not pick updates up from Apple.

The SUS connects through a proxy. It works fine on another XServe with the same software which doesn't go through the proxy, so I have set clients to get their updates from that one.

It is also possible that my proble with SUS was because it was setup on a server running 10.5.7 rather than on an older version subsequently updated to this. As the problem coincided with me doing a clean install of all our servers.