h4x3d.com » hosts http://h4x3d.com online portfolio of Julian Klewes Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:18:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 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. http://h4x3d.com/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/ http://h4x3d.com/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/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:46:03 +0000 jz http://www.h4x3d.com/?p=1374 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

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