Now this is interesting. due to some network funkiness, pings to Yahoo were taking up to over 30 seconds. Yowza.
PING www.yahoo.akadns.net (216.115.102.77): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 216.115.102.77: icmp_seq=60 ttl=243 time=24310.9 ms 64 bytes from 216.115.102.77: icmp_seq=53 ttl=243 time=31329.2 ms 64 bytes from 216.115.102.77: icmp_seq=78 ttl=243 time=6011.04 ms 64 bytes from 216.115.102.77: icmp_seq=68 ttl=243 time=16207.8 ms 64 bytes from 216.115.102.77: icmp_seq=55 ttl=243 time=29377.5 ms 64 bytes from 216.115.102.77: icmp_seq=72 ttl=243 time=12239 ms