Hello,

When I have not sync'd in over a month or so and when I ran:

emerge --sync
It basically shows the motd of the remote rsync server and then times out.
I have let it run for a bit and try multiple servers and it just keeps 
timing out after the motd regardless of which server it goes to... here is 
some output:


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Script started on Mon Jan  2 16:46:45 2006
sh-3.00# emerge --sync
]2;Started emerge on: Jan 02, 2006 16:46:54]2; *** emerge  sync]2; === sync]2;>>> starting rsync with rsync://64.127.121.98/gentoo-portage>>> starting rsync with rsync://64.127.121.98/gentoo-portage...
>>> checking server timestamp ...
Welcome to owl.gentoo.org

Server Address : 64.127.121.98
Contact Name   : mirror-admin@gentoo.org
Hardware       : 4 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz, 1024MB RAM


Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more
than once a day.  Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation
may be added to a temporary ban list.


MOTD brought to you by motd-o-matic, version 0.3

io timeout after 180 seconds - exiting
rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(109)
>>> retry ...
]2;>>> Starting retry 1 of 3 with rsync://134.68.220.73/gentoo-portage

>>> Starting retry 1 of 3 with rsync://134.68.220.73/gentoo-portage
>>> checking server timestamp ...
Welcome to raven.gentoo.org

Server Address : 134.68.220.73
Contact Name   : mirror-admin@gentoo.org
Hardware       : 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1700MHz, 2176MB RAM


Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more
than once a day.  Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation
may be added to a temporary ban list.


MOTD brought to you by motd-o-matic, version 0.3

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and thats it.  I reinstalled a recent portage snapshot and also made sure 
I don't have any config file updates pending with etc-update and a manual 
search in etc.  The rest of portage/emerge continues to work fine.  I can 
continue to emerge/install packages without problems, just not --sync. 
Any ideas are appreciated.  Thanks,

 			-Matt-

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