SO 2.3.50 not starting without routed internet access

[jjvquest]

Hello team/community,

It seems SO 2.3.50 will not start the SO services after reboot if there is no routed internet connectivity. I did not delve deep into the issue because it appeared only after we moved from routed internet access to using the manual proxy configurations as per docs. After re-establishing routed internet access everything started working again.

Salt did not come further than:
[INFO ] Executing command 'yum' in directory '/root'

Which leads me to believe the issue has to do with a yum status check that cannot be performed via proxy (due to misconfiguration in proxy or in the (or my) SO configuration). Either way I think it should not halt the entire starting proces.

Also regarding the proxy docs: I am not sure if "export" is needed in the /etc/environment entry's, see https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.3/proxy.html?highlight=proxy#proxy-configuration

Thanks for the awesome product and I hope this information can be of help!

Jay
(systems are SO 2.3.20 ISO, upgraded with SOUP to .21, .30, .40 and .50)