Nothing has changed on my end (portage, rsync, commuincations, etc.) in a long time, but rsync is totally dead - always times out. I've tried disabling the firewall (stop shorewall, then shorewall clear), but I get the same results without the firewall.
I'm starting to look at a tcpdump.
Can anyone shed any light on this???
I'm on cable with a router and dhcp, if that makes any difference. emerge <pkg>, email, browser, etc. all work normally. I tried re-emerging rsync. The problem exists for any and all rsync mirrors.
Of my head sounds like your cable provider started blocking the rsync port. Simple test would be to telnet to one of the rsync mirrors into their rsync port. If you are able to connect then the port is not blocked. If you cannot connect then you are likely looking at a blocked TCP Port. A lot of Cable ISPs do that. My Cable ISP blocks all the netbios ports, which would not be so bad if I did not occasionally need to access my Win32 machines.
--- Dan
p.s. if you don't recall the port, you can always just telnet <host> rsync.
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