Strange networking problem

[Thomas Cameron]

> Hi,
>
> My router is working fine and my broadband connection seems okay.
> Problem is this. If I use firefox, getting pages can be hideously slow.
> Trying to do an svn checkout is painful from a terminal window and I am
> getting resolution problems when trying to do a yum update (run out of
> mirrors error). If I try to ping I am getting 100% loss, yet emails can
> come and go without a problem!
>
> Has any ideas what on earth is going on? I'm using rawhide on a box last
> updated 2 days ago.

Any chance you somehow turned on iptables with the last update?  Maybe
there are some weird rules in place?

Thomas