[expert] security/proxy config

[Linda Walsh]

This may be an inexpert question, but I'm having problems configuring
the proxies to work in downloading the security stuff.  I have a
proxy server (astarte:8080) -- and indeed, using netscape on another
machine, through the
proxy, I can see the first site via ftp://.  So I'm unclear as to what
I'm doing wrong.  I've switched over to the shell, verified the net
was up and was able to ping the proxy server.  

Anyway -- it just sits there for about 5-10 minutes! (um, isn't that a pretty
long timeout?) and comes back with Net::FTP connection timeout propagated
up from <something>/ftp.pm

Also there seems to be no way to go *back* and try a different proxy
combo.  I gave it '<ftp|http>://astarte.corp.sgi.com:8080'.

Thanks,
-linda