BTW If I use Mozilla it reports
"The connection was refused when attempting to contact slasdot.org"
Opera just seems to sit there waiting for something to happen.
links reports 
"Error loading http://slashdot.org/:"
      "No route to host"
ping doesn't
traceroute gives
 traceroute www.slashdot.org
traceroute to www.slashdot.org (66.35.250.151), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
 1  cyberduct (192.168.168.4)  1.022 ms  0.829 ms  0.793 ms
 2  n-1-77.samart.net.th (203.149.1.77)  156.874 ms  149.191 ms  129.698 ms
 3  203.149.1.65 (203.149.1.65)  139.736 ms  139.470 ms  139.650 ms
 4  203.149.1.50 (203.149.1.50)  189.833 ms  149.753 ms  139.459 ms
 5  202.47.254.241 (202.47.254.241)  140.296 ms  139.357 ms  129.942 ms
 6  202.47.253.148 (202.47.253.148)  390.422 ms  379.599 ms  429.951 ms
 7  202.47.253.246 (202.47.253.246)  370.212 ms  380.017 ms  369.728 ms
 8  500.POS1-3.IG3.SAC1.ALTER.NET (157.130.213.13)  390.121 ms  359.761 ms  
360.060 ms
 9  0.so-0-1-0.XR2.SAC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.54.126)  380.086 ms  359.667 ms  
369.963 ms
10  0.so-0-0-0.XL2.SAC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.54.1)  370.133 ms  359.655 ms  
369.816 ms
11  0.so-7-0-0.XL2.SJC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.55.133)  380.185 ms  368.392 ms  
360.426 ms
12  POS1-0.XR2.SJC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.55.125)  370.576 ms  379.491 ms  366.402 
ms
13  POS5-0.XR2.SJC7.ALTER.NET (152.63.52.142)  383.702 ms  359.729 ms  369.723 
ms
14  POS7-0.BR1.SJC7.ALTER.NET (152.63.56.165)  370.175 ms  359.623 ms  369.850 
ms
15  bpr2-so-2-1-0.SanJoseEquinix.cw.net (208.173.55.1)  370.345 ms  369.660 ms  
389.807 ms
16  bhr2-pos-0-0.SantaClarasc8.cw.net (208.173.55.26)  360.300 ms  349.817 ms  
371.190 ms
17  csr2-ve241.SantaClarasc8.cw.net (66.35.194.43)  378.800 ms  360.882 ms  
368.513 ms
18  66.35.210.202 (66.35.210.202)  380.079 ms  369.580 ms  369.915 ms
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Neil
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