Why does Yum/DNF fails to fetch the epel repos behind the Proxy using NTLM authentication?
Issue
- Yum/DNF fails to fetch the epel repositories on the Proxy server with error status code 407.
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'epel-everything':
- Status code: 407 for http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/8/Everything/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 10.107.250.81)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'epel-everything': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
- NTLM Proxy.
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