On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:02:48 -0700 Dan Egli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Collins Richey wrote: > > | 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. > | > | > 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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
