[ale] up2date connection timeout

[Ryan Fish]

I receive the following when attempting to use up2date on a RHEL3 ES server:

[root@<server> root]# up2date -l
https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
Error communicating with server. The message was:
Connection timed out

>From /var/log/up2date (110 is the error number, not the port used):
[Wed Jan  5 12:04:38 2005] up2date updating login info
[Wed Jan  5 12:04:38 2005] up2date logging into up2date server
[Wed Jan  5 12:07:47 2005] up2date A socket error occurred: (110, 'Connection timed out'), attempt #1
[Wed Jan  5 12:11:01 2005] up2date A socket error occurred: (110, 'Connection timed out'), attempt #2
[Wed Jan  5 12:14:15 2005] up2date A socket error occurred: (110, 'Connection timed out'), attempt #3
[Wed Jan  5 12:17:29 2005] up2date A socket error occurred: (110, 'Connection timed out'), attempt #4
[Wed Jan  5 12:20:43 2005] up2date A socket error occurred: (110, 'Connection timed out'), attempt #5
[Wed Jan  5 12:20:43 2005] up2date Error communicating with server. The message was:
Connection timed out

I AM able to connect to the up2date site via telnet on port 443 though...:
[root@<server> up2date]# telnet xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com 443
Trying 209.132.177.100...
Connected to xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com (209.132.177.100).
Escape character is '^]'.


up2date-4.2.38-1
kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 3)

So far, the only thing I have found in my searching online is to make sure the system date/time are correct: they are...

Any suggestions or recommendations?

Thank you.
-Ryan
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