rsync daemon on yum.puppetlabs.com unavailable

The rsync service that is hosted on yum.puppetlabs.com is currently reporting unavailable, blocking the creation of local mirrors of the puppet labs packages

an rsync attempt to yum.puppetlabs.com shows the following error

rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (54.230.202.18): Connection timed out (110)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (54.230.202.54): Connection timed out (110)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (54.230.202.62): Connection timed out (110)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (54.230.202.173): Connection timed out (110)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (54.230.202.181): Connection timed out (110)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (54.230.202.194): Connection timed out (110)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (54.230.202.200): Connection timed out (110)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (54.230.202.227): Connection timed out (110)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (2600:9000:200d:f800:b:ebec:fdc0:93a1): Network is unreachable (101)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (2600:9000:200d:4a00:b:ebec:fdc0:93a1): Network is unreachable (101)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (2600:9000:200d:6600:b:ebec:fdc0:93a1): Network is unreachable (101)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (2600:9000:200d:7e00:b:ebec:fdc0:93a1): Network is unreachable (101)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (2600:9000:200d:8000:b:ebec:fdc0:93a1): Network is unreachable (101)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (2600:9000:200d:de00:b:ebec:fdc0:93a1): Network is unreachable (101)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (2600:9000:200d:e200:b:ebec:fdc0:93a1): Network is unreachable (101)
rsync: failed to connect to yum.puppetlabs.com (2600:9000:200d:ec00:b:ebec:fdc0:93a1): Network is unreachable (101)