I'm not sure what I have been doing wrong. I have a local sync server located at 10.1.10.37 and I'm running iptables on a web server. What port do I need to open when I run emerge --sync? I have tried port 873 like below and still no luck. I do not have a firewall running on the sync server. below is an example of my firewall rules on the web server ip= iptables -F iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -d $ip --dport 443 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -s 10.1.10.0/24 -d $ip --dport 22 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -s 10.1.10.37 -d $ip --dport 873 -j ACCEPT Any help would greatly appreciated.