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Originally Posted by eth00
# telnet rest.akismet.com 80
Trying 72.233.69.3...
Connected to rest.akismet.com (72.233.69.3).
Escape character is '^]'.
I was able to connect on port 80. If what spiral is saying is right you should be able to set the above IP in /etc/hosts and have it work ( though it will not be as redundant).
Before doing that I would make sure it at least works:
telnet 72.233.69.3 80
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Wow. Bingo. I had already put one of the IPs listed for rest.akismet.com in
/etc/hosts
but it was the one for the apparently dead connection.
72.233.56.139 rest.akismet.com
worked.
Now the akismet api key checking page confirmed the akismet key instantly.
This is solved. THANK YOU.
And thanks to Spiral who checked that one of the IPs being split off was down, something I don't think Akismet folks may not even know.