On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:03:02 -0700 Dan Egli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Collins Richey wrote: > > | On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:53:36 -0700 > | Dan Egli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | > |>Collins Richey wrote: > |> > |> > |>> > |>>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. > |> > | > | > | I'm thinking that you are correct. I get the same behavior from the > other gentoo machine on my local net. This is apparently a recent > change by comcast. > | > | So, this now brings up the related question: what are the implications > of only doing emerge-webrsync to sync the portage tree? > | > > Must be your local branch because I'm on comcast too and I rsync just > fine. I have no idea on the implications of emerge-webrsync. Someone ele > would be better for that. I'm still new to gentoo. > Dan, Can you let me know where you are located. I want to call comcast, but I would like to have all my ducks in a row first. It could be that they are rolling out a major change and you, too, will be affected. Fortunately, emerge-webrsync works, so I'm not totally high and dry. -- Collins - Denver Area - Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
