selfupdate fail

[The Trystero]

i encountered the following problem while trying to run selfupdate. i've
tried to search this on the forums, but even though some people have asked
this in the past, i did not see a solution that worked for me. i'm not using
a firewall.

$ sudo port -v selfupdate
Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://
rsync.macports.org/release/ports/
rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Operation timed out (60)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at
/SourceCache/rsync/rsync-35.2/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9]
Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports
tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
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