nget

I get the following error when selecting huge newsgroups:

[pharos@callisto friends]$ nget -g
alt.binaries.boneless -r 'friends_s4'
make_connection(1,newszilla.xs4all.nl,nntp,0xbfffe3b0,512)
Connecting to 194.109.133.20:119
h >> 200 dreader4.news.xs4all.nl NNRP Service Ready -
newsmaster@xs4all.nl (posting ok).
h << GROUP alt.binaries.boneless
h >> 211 600001 29408733 30008733 alt.binaries.boneless
Flushing headers 22891575-23276095(384521): 384520
(384515,16682)
Retrieving headers 29408733-30008733 :
443207/599996/600001 73% 67620B/s 10m56sKilled

Smaller groups have no problems. The news server is a
Diablo newsserver on BSD. Client is a Red Hat 7.2 with
nget 0.24.1. I have emptied the local cache directory.