On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:02:48 -0700
Dan Egli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> Collins Richey wrote:
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> | On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:03:02 -0700
> | Dan Egli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> |>Collins Richey wrote:
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> |>| On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:53:36 -0700
> |>| Dan Egli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> |>|
> |>|>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.
> |
> |
> I'm in Holladay, UT. Call it Salt Lake City. After all, we were a part
> of SLC till about 2 years ago when a county vote determined we would
> form an independant city (dumb idea if you ask me, but hey, I cannot
> overrule the majority vote).
> 

Whatever the problem was, it is now gone!  Three days of rsync not working, and now 
the problem is not there any more.  Something external to my system, but I have no 
clue what.  I've made no communications changes to my systems.

Sigh, chalk it up to serendipity.  Oh well, I'm always in the checkout lane that 
breaks down. <g>

-- 
Collins - Denver Area - 
Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1

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