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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.
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