failing bootstrap step - gnulib git URL changed?

I'm at a strange location, so it's always possible a firewall is
interfering, but I don't think so.  I am unable to make the ./bootstrap
step work to fetch gnulib.  It is failing trying to connect to the
repository.  I'm worried this might be real, someone needs to validate the
existing URL, and maybe get the better URL?

Can someone else try the command:
      git clone --depth 365 'git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib' 'gnulib'
as executed by the bootstrap script?  I see
      Cloning into 'gnulib'...
      fatal: unable to connect to git.sv.gnu.org:
      git.sv.gnu.org[0: 140.186.70.72]: errno=Connection refused

When I try the equivalent:
      git clone --depth 365 http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git gnulib
I see
      Cloning into 'gnulib'...
      remote: Counting objects: 16354, done.
      remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7409/7409), done.
      Receiving objects:  24% (3933/16354), 3.13 MiB | 336.00 KiB/s
      ........

If I modify .gitmodules as below the bootstrap step completes successfully:
      diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
      index a1d9326..e6ec3e8 100644
      --- a/.gitmodules
      +++ b/.gitmodules
      @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
       [submodule "gnulib"]
              path = gnulib
      -       url = git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib
      +       url = http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/gnulib.git
       [submodule "uthash"]
              path = uthash
              url = git://github.com/troydhanson/uthash

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