Outside connections problems...
 

I recently migrated my websites to a new server. I installed slack 11 (previously had 10.2) and set everything up as I had it before. Everything is fine except when I try to pull information from another site. e.g. when I try to pull information from an rss feed, or scrape information from an external torrent. Both of things worked just fine on my old server, but now wont. I made sure that httpd.conf and php.ini are the same as the old settings.

Any suggestions?

can you ping?
are the services actually started?

Yes, the sites are running, but it just cant seem to take outside information in...