It appears that the extreme slowness is due to ftp.ietf.org being overloaded and refusing most connections. After I changed the first line of /usr/share/mibs/Makefile.mib to
RFCHOST = http://www.rfc-editor.org the download process only took a few minutes. -- Daniel Schepler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org