Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> What release are you running on the machine that's doing the checkout?  
> There was a problem, fixed in September, with ipfw that could cause 
> such symptoms.  One way to check: try to get the different pieces 
> separately and see if you get further.  If you can identify what 
> directory it's hanging in, get each file separately.

I'm running a relatively recent netbsd-2-0 (from last week or so), and 
don't have any ipfw rules.
Today the cvs checkout completed without problems... odd.

mkb.