note 31870 rejected from function.file by joey

Trying some simple fopen() and file() on our FreeBSD machine (php v4.0.6), and am running into the most irritating problem. When using file() to get a tiny remote text file (via HTTP), sometimes the damn thing works, and later on that day, it doesn't... no error though, just a never-ending hang. Sometimes it actually succeeds, after hanging for 2+ minutes... I know I should probably just set up a cron job to wget this text file, but this way really should work too: <?php $weather = file ('http://a.small.four/line/textfile.txt'); echo $weather[0]; echo $weather[1]; echo $weather[2]; echo $weather[3]; ?> etc... I know it's an oversimplified example, but it _should_ work, and it _does_ work, but then it wont work for a few hours, then it will... (the small text file is always present on the remote server, so that's not the issue) Comments? Help? Please? :)