Having mounted the first fedora system on Friday, I then tried downloading patches using up2date from fedora.redhat.com. No joy on various attempts over the weekend. No response to ping, although traceroute seems to reach ncsugsr-gw-to-ncni-oc48.ncni.net, then get a lot of stars. At the same time, up2date on a RH9 box nearby works swiftly (in a matter of seconds.)