oddly i don't see any existing bugs or notices to gentoo-dev on the topic http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/ times out connecting to git://git.overlays.gentoo.org times out tried from a couple different hosts
Known issue and announced via http://infra-status.gentoo.org/ This bug isn't needed for tracking, closing.
*** Bug 498096 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***