cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to sourceware.org(209.132.180.131):2401 failed: Connection timed out

[Wesley Miller]

I am running a script, mingw-w64-build-3.2.3 , that aborts with 

     cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to sourceware.org(209.132.180.131):2401 failed: Connection timed out

I have tried using command line (linux) cvs, setting my CVSROOT thus:

    export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/pthreads-win3

And using "anonymous" as the password when I respond to the prompt after doing a "logim"

Also tried "anoncvs" as userid and password.  No difference.

Can someone either suggest what the script might be doing wrong, that I need to do to make the script happy, or kickstart the cvs server?

Many thanks,

Wes