diff --git a/network/tinyproxy-updates.conf b/network/tinyproxy-updates.conf
index 5372fd9..b88c917 100644
--- a/network/tinyproxy-updates.conf
+++ b/network/tinyproxy-updates.conf
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Allow 127.0.0.1
 Allow 10.137.0.0/16
 
 ConnectPort 443
+# Gentoo uses Rsync for its main repository
+ConnectPort 873
 
 # Explicitly block connections to the proxy IP, to return an error in such
 # case. This error page contains a magic string which is used in Whonix to
diff --git a/network/update-proxy-configs b/network/update-proxy-configs
index 24f7df2..26639cf 100755
--- a/network/update-proxy-configs
+++ b/network/update-proxy-configs
@@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ EOF
 
 # Determine whether the proxy should be used
 if qsvc yum-proxy-setup || qsvc updates-proxy-setup ; then
-    PROXY_ADDR="http://127.0.0.1:8082/"
+    PROXY_ADDR_BASE="127.0.0.1:8082"
+    PROXY_ADDR="http://${PROXY_ADDR_BASE}/"
     PROXY_CONF_ENTRY="proxy=$PROXY_ADDR"
 else
     PROXY_ADDR=""
@@ -148,5 +149,6 @@ fi
 # Portage (Gentoo)
 if [ -e /etc/portage/make.conf ]; then
     update_conf /etc/portage/make.conf "http_proxy=\"$PROXY_ADDR\"
-https_proxy=\"$PROXY_ADDR\""
+https_proxy=\"$PROXY_ADDR\"
+RSYNC_PROXY=\"${PROXY_ADDR_BASE}\""
 fi