[support] How to diagnose available updates check failure on fresh install

[Matt Jones]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Maurice Mengel <mauricemengel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Drupal's INSTALL.TXT has this passage which is not very specific:
>  Various Drupal features require that the web server process (for
>   example, httpd) be able to initiate outbound connections. This is usually
>   possible, but some hosting providers or server configurations forbid such
>   connections. The features that depend on this functionality include the
>   integrated "Update status" module

Aha! This turned out to be the case - outbound connections on port 80
were being blocked.

Thanks for your help!

-- 
Matt