I found the reason. It's because the proxy didn't know the host 
svn.sourceforge.net.
Now I use the ip 66.35.250.146 instead of the host name, which works.

Thanks,
Jerry
 
Jijun Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I added the line "66.35.250.146 svn.sourceforge.net" into /etc/hosts as 
> the mail said, however, svn update spec-file-extra doesn't work yet.
> bash-3.00$ grep svn.sourceforge.net /etc/hosts
> 66.35.250.146  svn.sourceforge.net
>
> And the error message is as usual.
> bash-3.00$ svn up
> svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svnroot/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk'
> svn: PROPFIND of '/svnroot/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk': Could not 
> create SSL connection through proxy server (https://svn.sourceforge.net)
>
> I also have "files" in the hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
> bash-3.00$ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
> # "hosts:" and "services:" in this file are used only if the
> hosts:      nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
>
> For looking up name sever of pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net, the 
> connection is timed out.
> bash-3.00$ nslookup pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>
> Don't know why? Anything I missed?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry
>
>
> Doug Scott wrote:
>   
>> Today the dns for svn.sourceforge.net has seemed to have gone missing. 
>> If you try a 'svn update' it may fail. To get around this I did a 
>> nslookup on pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net and added its ip address to 
>> /etc/hosts for svn.sourceforge.net. After this 'svn update' worked fine.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> doug at prae> nslookup svn.sourceforge.net
>> Server:         192.168.1.30
>> Address:        192.168.1.30#53
>>
>> Non-authoritative answer:
>> *** Can't find svn.sourceforge.net: No answer
>>
>> doug at prae> nslookup pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net
>> Server:         192.168.1.30
>> Address:        192.168.1.30#53
>>
>> Non-authoritative answer:
>> pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net    canonical name = 4.svn.sourceforge.net.
>> Name:   4.svn.sourceforge.net
>> Address: 66.35.250.146
>>
>> doug at prae> grep svn.sourceforge.net /etc/hosts
>> 66.35.250.146   svn.sourceforge.net
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