port selfupdate failing

[Jeremy Lavergne]

When you say "nothing works" did you try the answers you had discounted 
for proxies? Your ISP could be blocking ports or you're still behind a 
clever proxy.

That is, have you tried syncing over svn instead?

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN

Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> I am having trouble installing macports on an iMac at work running OSX
> Mavericks. After the installation from the dmg, I try to run the port
> self update command and get the messages below. I have already googled
> for answers, but found nothing that works. Most of the answers relate to
> being behind some proxy, but checking with "http://amibehindaproxy.com"
> or "http://www.lagado.com/proxy-test" both say I'm not behind a proxy.
>
> I'd really appreciate any suggestions.