Yep, I've been checking out fine earlier from the same place. In fact, I just did a successful update 20 min ago, but cannot do so again when I tried just now.
This is the exact error; looks like a timeout...
Error: Can't connect to host 'svn.rockbox.org': A connection attempt failed because
Error: the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or
Error: established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.