TCP Timeouts within one second of connect()

All: Has anyone see an oddity with outbound HTTP client TCP connections from SOAP that return err: "Connection time out" from the lower OS stack, but happen within second or two of the connect() call from $object->method calls(from CLI testing code) We're running generally up to date *BSD and 5.2.x and 5.3.x and no other mitigating factors to eliminate before composing this (like, Firewalls, or network issues). ~BAS