Edit: Unfortunately, the images originally included in this post are gone, because of hosting problems in late 2009. My apologies.
I don’t know how or why, but the Gentoo wiki is having a bad day.
I only wanted the safe CFLAG settings for my Pentium III. I should really just memorize them, but I’m too lazy. And the Gentoo wiki is always there for me. It’ll never be down. … 
Edit: They’re …
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
Just so I don’t have to memorize them. 
Edit: Ah, (maybe) this was the reason.
Both gentoo-wiki and gentoo-portage are third party sites. Them being down is unrelated to that story at the register which concerns the official packages.gentoo.org service.
I see. Thanks for clarifying that.