rsync errors

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 6, 2007, at 07:08, Mark wrote:

> port sync failed: sync failed doing rsync

[snip]

> Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports
> rsync: failed to connect to rsync.darwinports.org: Operation timed  
> out (60)
> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/ 
> rsync-24.1/rsync/clientserver.c(94)
>
> Does anybody know how to fix this error? What is the problem?

Let's start by assuming that the problem is what it says it is: it  
can't connect to the rsync server. Are you on a network that  
prohibits traffic on the rsync port 873? Perhaps something in your  
firewall configuration?