A trivial tidy-up required to substitute the correct host name: >>> starting rsync with rsync://203.87.95.205/gentoo-portage... >>> checking server timestamp ... This is rsync[number].[country].gentoo.org.
I'm not sure what you're asking us to do here. The DNS looks fine for rsync3.au.gentoo.org: jforman@sixthstreet samba $ host rsync3.au.gentoo.org rsync3.au.gentoo.org has address 203.87.95.205 -Jeffrey
It's the banner/welcome message produced by rsyncd that needs updating; it currently has "[number]" and "[country]" instead of "3" and "au" respectively.
The hostname is now being reported correctly - case closed.