mirror: server gone away

[Gerhard Kroder <gerhard.kroder@data-sciences.de>]

hi,

i try to setup an intranet mirror (with mirror v2.9-12) for potato, but
i guess i get into timeouts. running "mirrorr -d -d conffile" tells me
somewhere in exluding stuff:

>    exclude: dists/potato/main/source/misc/x-face-el_1.3.6.1-1.diff.gz
> ---> PWD
> remote server gone away
>    exclude: dists/potato/main/source/misc/x-face-el_1.3.6.1-1.dsc

looks like exluding all the not wanted things takes some time to much. i
already set an timeout=500, but it doesn't help.  can someone tell me
how to work around this?

 gerhard