bedazzled-laptop ~ # emerge info | grep -i ftp
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo/"
SYNC="rsync://ftp.belnet.be/gentoo/"
bedazzled-laptop ~ # emerge --sync
>>> starting rsync with rsync://193.190.198.20/gentoo/...
>>> checking server timestamp ...
Welcome to the BELNET public rsync daemon rsync.belnet.be::
This rsync archive resides on a quad-processor SunFire V440 with 16GB RAM
and three StorEdge 3510 Arrays with more 4 TB of disk space for the FTP
archives.
This server is located in Brussels, Belgium and operated by BELNET, the
Education and research network of Belgium. If you have any problem,
question or mirror request, please send them to ftpmaint@belnet.be
This archive is also available through the following means
FTP ftp://ftp.belnet.be
HTTP http://ftp.belnet.be
* Note: opening many parallel connections to this *
* host is considered an abuse *
receiving file list ...
rsync: link_stat "metadata/timestamp.chk" (in gentoo) failed: No such file or directory (2)
0 files to consider
client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the --recursive option?
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(653)
>>> retry ...
Exiting on signal 2
bedazzled-laptop ~ #