The remote end cut you off. Try another mirror.
Is this a know infrastructure issue. It seems to happening a lot
lately. I'm wary of retrying lest I end up on a ban list.
I've retried a lot. Maybe I ended up on the ban list. What I really
need to do is set up a local mirror since I've got a rack full of
Gentoo servers.
In any case, emerge-webrsync works for now (thanks Marcus, not sure
why I didn't think of that).
It seems there are some deeper issues, however, as gcc and emacs are
failing to emerge. Signal 4 again with emacs. Hm. Think I might try
scaling back my CFLAGS.
Alexander Clark