selfupdate fails on OS X 10.9

[SmritiM84]

I am trying to install ports on OS X 10.9, but despite Macports being installed without error the selfupdate command fails. This is NOT a network firewall issue because the same works on a different Mac with OS X 10.7. With OS X 10.9 I am using X code version 5.1.1 and the latest (sept) version of the commands line tool. Following is the error I get.

sudo port -v selfupdate
--->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Operation timed out (60)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/clientserver.c(105) [receiver=2.6.9]
Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base.tar /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
Exit code: 10
Error: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
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Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Unfortunately I don't know what to tell you. The error message makes it sound like a network problem.