Akismet Issue – Banning People

Is Akismet down?

Did they close the servers?

Well something is wrong. My site and a few other people’s sites are banning people. it’s almost as if akismet is banning huge i.p. ranges or internet service providers. I had an issue a few months back. It seems it is happening again. I am not mad at anyone. I completely appreciate everything they have done. It does though seem like I should just turn it off in my plug-ins and all of my posts might have to have the comments turned off . Really it seems like I never used the thing anyway. I personally have decided to not accept probably 200 times the amount of messages that Akismet did not block. No i do not ban them, I just decide to not accept spammy ones.

Here is a quote from the Forums I posted my request in

all of my powweb accounts are showing this again
“Akismet has detected a problem. A server or network problem is preventing Akismet from working correctly. Click here for more information about how to fix the problem.”

Last time that was showing, there was an issue . It took a few days for people to come together and note it was not each of our individual fault/issue.
I didnt log into any of my sites for like 3 days, i logged in and saw that.. It has now been three days since I first saw it. So I am assuming no one has caught it again.

Just a heads up to the techies. if it turns out to be something on my end. Let me know.
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Not to say it is actually teh same issue, but I could suggest that something else happened when they updated to accommodate the issue I WAS having. It all seemed to start with  the latest WordPress update.

There is a link in  “Is Akismet down?” that shows how to resolve some of the issue. Maybe it will help you.

Akismet Down?

Akismet has detected a problem. A server or network problem is preventing Akismet from working correctly. Click here for more information about how to fix the problem.

After clicking that link I get

The key you entered could not be verified because a connection to akismet.com could not be established. Please check your server configuration.

The key below was previously validated but a connection to akismet.com can not be established at this time. Please check your server configuration.

Since I updated to the latest version of WordPress I have been getting that error.

and below that error I get another

Server Connectivity

Unable to reach any Akismet servers.

A network problem or firewall is blocking all connections from your web server to Akismet.com. Akismet cannot work correctly until this is fixed. Please contact your web host or firewall administrator and give them this information about Akismet and firewalls.

Akismet server Network Status
66.135.58.62 Obstructed
66.135.58.61 Obstructed

Last checked 1 min ago.

On every one of my sights. The spam count is freaking high right now and everything is getting past akismet, ofcourse akismet’s count still says 100% accuracy.

Anyone got a work around ?

btw, my job blocks twitter and my posts send directly to twitter, soo I am not just yelling in the dark.

And of course after posting I get fatal error even though my posts do actually get to the web