(Note: I also posted this a few days ago to libraries@haskell.org without much response, and thought I might have more success here. Please correct me if this is inappropriate.)

I'm trying to use cabal-install on two machines, Debian Sid and OS X 10.5, but I am unable to run "update" on either. Most other commands seem to work fine, but the networking for "update" gives an error on both machines, completely independently:

  Downloading package list from server
  'http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive'
  cabal: recv: resource vanished (Connection reset by peer)

Running with the -v3 option does not provide much more information:

Both machines are using a vanilla Netgear ProSafe VPN Firewall FVS318v3, a very simple prosumer router. Obviously, the router works fine for everything else, and has been running flawlessly for ages.

This is using cabal-install from darcs and the cabal 1.4 branch.

Thanks a bunch for helping,

Jeff Wheeler