David sent this to me, but it's something other gentooers should see, so I'm 
forwarding it here :)

Rich

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Subject: RE:RE:for the GENTOO crowd
From: DAVID KUCHARSKI <dkucharski1@comcast.net>
To: edelman@speedscript.com

Thanks!! That got me where I needed to be.

Dave

>Gentoo's rsync server has been overloaded due to it's sudden massive
> growth...

It now only serves rsync mirrors. To get around this, change the
SYNC line in
your /etc/make.conf file to this:
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"

That'll use the round-robin dns system they have set up to redirect
you to a
mirror. Only thing is, earlier versions of Portage (> 1.8.8 I
believe) don't
correctly support this, but you can try it on a stage 1 install. If
it
doesn't work, you'll need to do a stage 3 install until the Gentoo
folks get
around to releasing new cd images.

Rich

--

"Mastery of UNIX, like mastery of language, offers real freedom. The
price of freedom is
always dear, but there's no substitute. Personally, I'd rather pay
for my freedom than
live in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT."
Thomas Scoville , U.S. computer journalist

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