I have had a lot of problems using cvs and the anoncvs.netbsd.org cvs 
server.
While most other packages that I get via cvs seem to transfer 
correctly, often
the netbsd cvs transfer ends with a series of what appears to be source 
lines
being chewed up by the cvs check out function as if they were cvs 
commands.

Other mirror sites seem to end in other similar strange failures, such 
as the
most recent:


setenv CVSROOT :pserver:anoncvs@grappa.unix-ag.uni-kl.de:/cvsroot
cvs -z3 co -P src
...
... time passes..
...
U src/distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/mac68k/md.c
cvs checkout: inflate: incomplete dynamic bit lengths tree
cvs [checkout aborted]: reading from server: Input/output error
ishtar#

or another mirror where cvs login fails in a strange way.

setenv CVSROOT :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.de.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot

ishtar# cvs login
(Logging in to anoncvs@anoncvs.de.NetBSD.org)
CVS password:
cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from 
anoncvs.de.NetBSD.org: cvs pserver: /cvsroot/CVSROOT/config: 
unrecognized keyword 'tag'
ishtar#

The question is do others have similar problems, and if so, how do they 
solve
these problems.

Thanks
John Clark