Fedora 4 uses selinux, which adds restrictions to what httpd processes can do. One of the big restrictions is on the creation of sockets.. which could be a problem when resolving news.google.com

If this is the case then you can configure it to allow the blocked behaviour. I don't have any personal experience with this, perhaps someone else can offer further advice.

I am downloading the fedora4 image for vmware now so I can experiment with this further - the topic comes up often enough here.