[plt-dev] Could not read response body error when checking out trunk

When I try to check out trunk I get experience the following:

grettke at stargate:~/plt$ svn checkout http://svn.plt-scheme.org/plt/trunk/ trunk

<checks out for a few seconds>

svn: REPORT of '/plt/!svn/vcc/default': Could not read response body:
Connection reset by peer (http://svn.plt-scheme.org)

grettke at stargate:~/plt$ svn --version
svn, version 1.5.1 (r32289)
   compiled Jul 31 2008, 09:45:17

grettke at stargate:~/plt$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 8.10

Searching for the error message yields results ranging from secure
connection issues to SVN server timeout issues.

Any ideas on what is going on here?