A newbie question about installing ports

[Jeremy Lavergne]

> rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Operation timed out (60)
> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9]
> Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base/tar/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
> Exit code: 10

Ah, your network blocks rsync. That's annoying.

You can try using SVN instead:
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN