[WBEL-users] rsync mirror down ?

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

Vincent,

look below.  You're hitting mirror.physics.ncsu.edu.  That's not the 
rsync box.  The proper box is the one in my earlier email:  
ks.physics.ncsu.edu

Ben

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 Vincent.Raffensberger@dtn.com wrote:

> All of my other rsync jobs work fine.  When I connect to NCSU, it tries 
> port 0, even when I specify port 873.
> 
> $ rsync -vvvrt rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu::whitebox/3.0/en /tmp/
> opening tcp connection to mirror.physics.ncsu.edu port 0
> rsync: failed to connect to mirror.physics.ncsu.edu: Connection refused
> 
> $ rsync -vvvrt --port=873 rsync://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu::whitebox/3.0/en 
> /tmp/
> opening tcp connection to mirror.physics.ncsu.edu port 0
> rsync: failed to connect to mirror.physics.ncsu.edu: Connection refused
> 
> Here's a working example:
> $ rsync -vvvrt 
> rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/redhat/redhat/linux/8.0/en/iso/i386/MD5SUM 
> /tmp/
> opening tcp connection to mirrors.kernel.org port 873
> wrote 100 bytes  read 772 bytes  1744.00 bytes/sec
> 
> $ rsync --version
> rsync  version 2.5.7  protocol version 26
> $ rpm -q rsync
> rsync-2.5.7-5.3E
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I just this second typed:
> 
> rsync rsync://ks.physics.ncsu.edu
> 
> and got back a result, showing whitebox as one of the rsync nodes.
> 
> I then ran my rsync command: (sorry about the wrap, it's all supposed to 
> be on one line)
> 
> rsync -Pvptrl --exclude=SRPMS --delete 
> rsync://ks.physics.ncsu.edu/whitebox/3.0/en/os/i386/ 
> /whitebox_mirror/3.0/en/os/i386/
> 
> and got back the appropriate responses.
> 
> Have you checked to ensure that your ISP/work/etc isn't blocking port 873?
> 
> Ben
> 
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 Vincent.Raffensberger@dtn.com wrote:
> 
> > It looks like they turned off rsync.
> > 
> <snip> 
> > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Mário Gamito wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Is mirror.physics.ncsu.edu down ?
> > > I use to rsync to it, but now i get an error.
> > > 
> > > Is there another updated one from where i can rsync ?
> > > I've already tried ftp.belnet.be and www.mirror.ac.uk, but apparently 
> > > they don't allow rsyncing.
> > > 
> > > Any help would be appreciated.
> > 
> > I just rsynch'd as a test, and had no problems...
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
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