Cannot connect to rsync.macports.org

[maheshsainni@…]

I am not able to update the macport. When i try to install new package then it say my port is outdated and suggest me to update. When i try to update it throw the error. Earlier it was working fine, and i was able to update port by sudo port -v selfupdate.

--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Operation timed out (60)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9]
Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base.tar /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
Exit code: 10
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed

it seems like internet connection problem but internet is working fine. I tried this from my office where i am within VPN and at my home where there is no VPN and not behind any proxy server but it give me same error. I recently update mountain lion to 10.8.4 and updated latest java, I also update the xcode.

Xcode 4.6.3
Build version 4H1503

I posted this problem at stackoverflow.com and superuser.com but didn't get any answer. Someone suggested me to try

telnet rsync.macports.org 873

to check whether i am able to connect with macport server or not but this was operation timeout. I really need to resolve this otherwise i have no choice to switch to Homebrew.

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Please do not set the Priority field.

Are you still experiencing this problem? I have no issues connecting to rsync.macports.org:

% rsync rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2012/07/20 16:37:09 .
-rw-r--r--     3594240 2013/07/05 18:03:03 base.tar
-rw-r--r--         512 2013/07/05 18:03:05 base.tar.rmd160
-rw-r--r--    53278720 2013/07/05 18:03:04 ports.tar
-rw-r--r--         512 2013/07/05 18:03:05 ports.tar.rmd160
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2013/07/05 18:02:16 PortIndex_darwin_10_i386
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2013/07/05 18:02:19 PortIndex_darwin_11_i386
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2013/07/05 18:02:21 PortIndex_darwin_12_i386
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2013/07/05 18:02:09 PortIndex_darwin_8_i386
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2013/07/05 18:02:06 PortIndex_darwin_8_powerpc
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2013/07/05 18:02:14 PortIndex_darwin_9_i386
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2013/07/05 18:02:11 PortIndex_darwin_9_powerpc
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[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Ergh. Let’s not bug Bill just yet.

[maheshsainni@…]

I just tried. Now its working fine. Did you made some changes? Can you explain what was the issue, It would help if i face the same issue in near future. Sorry for bugging.

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Replying to maheshsainni@…:

I just tried. Now its working fine. Did you made some changes? Can you explain what was the issue, It would help if i face the same issue in near future. Sorry for bugging.

I’m not aware of any recent changes that would affect our rsync server. It was probably a transient network problem.