Lately, failures like below are common.  If/when a
connection is made, it's often really slow, and sometimes
times out before finishing e.g. an update.  Is there
anything a normally-very-happy Anonymous CVS user of
anoncvs.no.netbsd.org can do to help?

        Sean.

Secure connection to anoncvs.no.netbsd.org on port 11750 refused; reverting to insecure method.
Using rsh.  WARNING: Connection will not be encrypted.
rcmd: rcmd: socket: Protocol not supported
rcmd: rcmd: socket: Protocol not supported
rcmd: rcmd: socket: Protocol not supported
rcmd: rcmd: socket: Protocol not supported
rcmd: rcmd: socket: Protocol not supported
rcmd: rcmd: socket: Protocol not supported
server.pasta.cs.uit.no: Connection refused
cvs [diff aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)