While updating Darwin ports, i got the following error

[bhushanak79]

Bhushan-Kanagalekars-MacBook-Pro:~ Bhushan$ sudo port -d selfupdate
Password:
Warning: No index(es) found! Have you synced your source indexes?
---> Updating the ports tree
DEBUG: Synchronizing ports tree(s)
Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/
DEBUG: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after '--exclude=/PortIndex*' rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports
rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Operation timed out (60)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-40/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9]
shell command "/usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after '--exclude=/PortIndex*' rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports" returned error 10
Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing rsync
DEBUG: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
while executing
"macports::selfupdate [array get global_options] base_updated"
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed

 

[LPZ]

Your rsync couldn't connect to the macports server. One possibility is that the server was temporarily down. You might try again; it's working for me.

Are you on a network that prohibits traffic on the rsync port 873? Perhaps something in your firewall configuration?