It may that the CVS delays ~24 hours are a result of external pserver requests/ViewCVS being routed to the backup CVS system, it appears that SF is trying to organize for a hardware upgrade, and is providing direct connections to the main servers only when logged in via SSH, anonymous connections are being deferred to the backup server farm which has the ~24 hour delay.
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2352&group_id=1#cvs see the message from 6-19-2003. They also have a August target date for the new hardware.
Also while I still can't access CVS due to firewall issues I did download the automated daily snapshot tarball from http://cvs.sf.net/cvstarballs/freebios-cvsroot.tar.gz It does not appear to have been updated since Wed July 2,2003 16:50 was that the last checkin or is something else broken at SF, but still it is much more recent than that 2001 tarball I had before.
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McMechan, James W CIV