Unable to find Akismet servers or The key below was previously validated but a connection to akismet.com can not be established at this time.

jz — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:46:03 +0000

Seems like either my server’s DNS management is entirely bust or WordPress/Automattic/Akismet changed something their end, because as discussed yesterday in my cannot resolve downloads.wordpress.org and dashboard (RSS) empty post, the fix is rather straight forward:

add the needed IPs and the corresponding hostname to /etc/hosts (on the server, not local client!),
you can see how to do it in the before mentioned post.

You can get the akismet IPs yourself by pinging rest.akismet.com or just check their website and FAQ at http://blog.akismet.com/akismet-hosting-faq

Just use the first one:
72.233.69.3
72.233.69.2
66.135.58.62
66.135.58.61

Facebook is down – it is not your internets

jez — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:44:29 +0000

~~The topic says it all, facebook is down right now (Friday 14th 17.00 GMT)~~ it is up now as by 17.50, weird though it was down from work (colt) and home (be there).

creativecommons.org down?

jez — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:41:38 +0000

to me creativecommons.org has been down – weird.

h4x3d.com » down

Unable to find Akismet servers or The key below was previously validated but a connection to akismet.com can not be established at this time.

Facebook is down – it is not your internets

creativecommons.org down?