While connecting yhe yum local repository, following error occured
Rsync Failed to connect
# rsync -avrt rsync://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/fedora/linux/updates/12/i386/ –exclude=debug/ –exclude=drpms/ –exclude=repodata/ –exclude=*debuginfo* –exclude=*i18* –exclude=*langpack* /yum/fedora/linux/updates/12/i386
rsync: failed to connect to ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de: Connection timed out (110)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(124) [receiver=3.0.6]
Check whether rsync port 783 was enabled in the firewall.
After enabling the port, it started synchronizing.
Port 873, guy!