platform issues?

[Redcat]

On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:43:38 -0500, Adrian Powell wrote:

> Since I'm actually trying to write a twitter client, I was more focused
> on the results from twitter. Since google and twitter are so huge and so
> distributed, I'd bet neither are good tests for this, but they look
> approximately right.
> 
> Are there better ways to test if our network setup is good? At least
> that would be a relatively easy thing to fix.

I think I'd first try "dig www.google.com" to be sure that it is 
resolving, then I believe I'd try to fetch the URL from your code sample 
using cUrl. If both of those work then I'm not sure what I'd look at next.