rsync yum.puppetlabs.com failing...

[Matthew Nicholson]

So @ my site we keep a number of software repos mirrored internally (not everything can egress to the net), and a number of these we only sync on demand (say, we want to upgrade puppet, sync the repo is the first step).

However, since yesterday morning (24 hours now), I haven't been able to establish a proper rsync connection to yum.puppetlabs.com, because it seems the rsync server is at its connection limit:

[root@mirror-proxy yum]# rsync --progress -avSH --partial --delete-delay rsync://yum.puppetlabs.com/packages /n/pkgs_repos/puppetlabs/

@ERROR: max connections (30) reached -- try again later

rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1503) [receiver=3.0.6]

Are some other mirrors holding connections open, or is there a way this limit can get bumped? 

Thanks! 

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Matthew Nicholson