A friend of mine directed me to the answer: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...sd/+bug/544935
This works for me:
loco@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
loco@ubuntu:~$ echo -e "HEAD / HTTP/1.0\r\n" | nc www.kernel.org 80 -q -1
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:53:54 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.17 (Fedora)
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: close
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