Unclear error message while getting started

[Bruce Korb]

Yeah, likely a firewall.  The policy here is block everything first
and ask questions later.  I'll try again when I get home.  Thank you.
Suggestion:  add "you may be behind a firewall" to the error message. :)

Thank you! - Bruce

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Jeremy Lavergne
<jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:
>> 2.  If I am doing a sync, how can it be that I haven't synced my "source indexes"?
>
> Your ISP or firewall is blocking the actual process, otherwise it would "just work", as you expected. You can see this by repeating your command with the debug flag (sudo port -d selfupdate).
>
> Please consider these alternatives:
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/PortTreeTarball
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN
>