[CentOS] mirror rsync problem?

Mon Apr 16 19:13:37 UTC 2007
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

I've got an intranet mirror of centos, been updating it periodically, 
recently my updates started failing...  I've tried several different 
mirrors as sources, but each time, the update fails at some random point 
with this error...


rsync: read error: Connection timed out (145)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(614) 
[receiver=2.6.8]
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (1605001 bytes received so far) 
[generator]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(463) 
[generator=2.6.8]


per a bit of googling, it appears this may be a generic 2.6.8 error, as 
explained here...
http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg16205.html



for what its worth, my local mirror server is actually a Sun ultrasparc 
running Solaris 10, with its built in rsync 2.6.8, which appears to be 
the same version as is running on the centos mirror servers.