I know this has worked for several past releases and it is crucial because I'm behind a firewall which blocks all ftp access. Therefore everything is blocked.
What's up here. my make.conf looks as follows:
CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -msse2" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
SYNC=rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
#PORTAGE_NICENESS=3
MAKEOPTS="-j" AUTOCLEAN=yes
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.llarian.net/ http://gentoo.binarycompass.org http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
- Brad Serbu -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list