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Reputation: 1307

Linux Proxy, How to ensure linux using my proxy settings

I just set my proxy in linux as below

export http_proxy="http://588814:[email protected]:6050"

Then I pinged google as ping google.com

It shown the result like this

$ping google.com

PING google.com(172.217.26.206) 56(84) bytes of data

No response from google.

Then I changed the password of proxy to a wrong password, and tried the same . I got the same result as before.

This means that , the linux terminal not using the proxy server.

Why and how to make linux terminal use the proxy server.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2184

Answers (2)

static_cast
static_cast

Reputation: 1178

Try adding your proxy information to apt.conf located in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/.

In the apt.conf, add the following:

Acquire::http::Proxy "http://<user_name>:<password>@<proxy address>:<port>";

Upvotes: 0

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943470

The http_proxy environment variable will only be used:

  • for HTTP requests
  • by software that pays attention to it

The terminal doesn't make HTTP requests. It just displays a shell for you.

Ping doesn't make HTTP requests. It uses ICMP, not HTTP.

If you want to test your proxy, then you'll need to use software which does make an HTTP request, such as Lynx.

Upvotes: 1

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