Help please

[jam at tigger.ws]

I have installed macports many times, so I’m not naive about what to do. I’ve never seen this. Can anyone point out my way forward:

[twill] /Users/jam [15]% ping rsync.macports.org
PING ftp.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (131.188.12.211): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 131.188.12.211: icmp_seq=0 ttl=41 time=541.214 ms
64 bytes from 131.188.12.211: icmp_seq=1 ttl=41 time=457.434 ms
…
^C
--- ftp.rrze.uni-erlangen.de ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 9 packets received, 10.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 440.591/552.447/681.501/79.577 ms

[twill] /Users/jam [16]% sudo port -v  selfupdate
Password:
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Operation timed out (60)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-52/rsync/clientserver.c(106) [receiver=2.6.9]
Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzvl --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs/base.tar /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/macports/release/tarballs
Exit code: 10

James