iptables-1.4.4 does not fetch !!! Couldn't download 'iptables-1.4.4.tar.bz2'. Aborting.
The mirror script was hung but it's up and running again now. The iptables-1.4.4.tar.bz2 file is in the list of newly added files: http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/infra/distfiles/failure.xml