Rsync to feed.community.greenbone.net timeout

Getting Started
1

Getting this error when trying to sync nvt:
rsync: [Receiver] safe_read failed to read 1 bytes: Connection timed out (110)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(282) [Receiver=3.2.7]

Can access feed.community.greenbone.net:873:
timeout 5 bash -c “</dev/tcp/feed.community.greenbone.net/873” && echo “connection success” || echo “connection failed”
connection success

What might be the problem?

Kind regards

2

Your internet connection, your routing, your firewall, CGN … etc… ?

3

Thank you for the feedback.

Is there a verbose option to run the sync task/script in order to see what the problem might be?

Kind regards.

4

Debug it like any other TCP connection, use TCPDUMP so see what happens and where and why the connection is not working.

e.g.
tcpdump -i eth0 port 873 and host feed.community.greenbone.net

And you need to do a tcp connection with a differnt terminal like:

nc feed.community.greenbone.net 873

The rest is network debugging like any other TCP issue in the Internet.

5

Thank you for your quick response.

We can connect and do get the welcome message:

@RSYNCD: 31.0

Greenbone community feed server - . . .

This service is hosted by Greenbone Networks - . . .

All transactions are logged.

If you have any questions, please use the Greenbone community portal.

See https://community.greenbone.net for details.

By using this service you agree to our terms and conditions.

Only one sync per time, otherwise the source ip will be temporarily blocked.

I suspect it might be local files/access rights and will investigate further.

Kind regards