rsync daemon down?

[Evan Weaver]

I can't ping it locally, either:

chloe:~ eweaver$ ping rsync.macports.org
PING rsync.macosforge.org (17.254.17.246): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: No route to host

But it works from the Linux machines. And somehow port 80 works
locally. Very confused here.

Evan

On Nov 16, 2007 3:49 AM, Evan Weaver <evan at cloudbur.st> wrote:
> Hmm. Still having trouble. I shut off the OS X 10.4.10 Firewall, and
> shut off the application "Little Snitch", and my company's VPN app.
> Still:
>
> chloe:~ eweaver$ telnet rsync.macports.org 873
> Trying 17.254.17.246...
> telnet: connect to address 17.254.17.246: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
>
> Incidentally I can see it ok from the router itself (OpenWRT):
>
> root at blondie:~$ telnet rsync.macports.org 873
> @RSYNCD: 28
>
> Also I can see it from an Ubuntu server on the same LAN:
>
> eweaver at brooke:~$ telnet rsync.macports.org 873
> Trying 17.254.17.246...
> Connected to alpha.macosforge.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> @RSYNCD: 28
>
> I'll try rebooting this machine in a minute in case something has gone
> horribly wrong with the local DNS cache.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Evan
>
>
> On Nov 16, 2007 3:30 AM, Tomasz Finc <tomasz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Works just fine for me
> >
> >  [tomasz at StayPuft:~]$ date ; sudo port selfupdate -d
> >
> >  Fri Nov 16 00:21:22 PST 2007
> >  Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.macports.org
> > /release/ports/
> >
> > ...
> > sent 73 bytes  received 5486 bytes  3706.00 bytes/sec
> > total size is 3642988  speedup is 655.33
> > Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.520
> > The MacPorts installation is not outdated and so was not updated
> > selfupdate done!
> >
> > Try doing a telnet connection to port 873 and 80 to see if your rsync
> > traffic is getting blocked in some way vs an http connection
> >
> > [tomasz at StayPuft:~]$ telnet rsync.macports.org 873
> > Trying 17.254.17.246...
> > Connected to rsync.macosforge.org .
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> >
> > --tomasz
> >
> > On Nov 15, 2007 11:47 PM, Evan Weaver <evan at cloudbur.st> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is the Rsync daemon down? I haven't been able to selfupdate for a
> > > couple of days now:
> > >
> > > chloe:~ eweaver$ sudo port -v selfupdate
> > > Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/
> > > rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Connection refused (61)
> > > rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at
> > > /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-24.1/rsync/clientserver.c(94)
> > > Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports
> > > tree: sync failed doing rsync
> > >
> > > I can see rsync.macports.org in my browser (it says "it works"), and
> > > disabling my firewall doesn't help.
> > >
> > > Thanks very much
> > >
> > > Evan
> > >
> > > --
> > > Evan Weaver
> > > Cloudburst, LLC
> > >
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> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Evan Weaver
> Cloudburst, LLC
>



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Evan Weaver
Cloudburst, LLC