I followed the directions on  the wiki

   http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/wiki/InstallingMacPorts

but when I get to the update step I get....

$ sudo port -d selfupdate

DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed.

DEBUG: Synchronizing ports tree(s)

Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/

DEBUG: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after 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-24.1/rsync/clientserver.c(94)

DEBUG: Couldn't sync the ports tree: sync failed doing rsync

    while executing

"macports::selfupdate [array get global_options]"

Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports tree: sync failed doing rsync

It looks like rsync is failing to connect.  Perhaps the server is too busy?

Or perhaps my company firewalls are blocking it?

Suggestions?

Thanks