[spam-stopper] Obvious spam getting through?

[Sebastian Herp]

Same problem in Germany (different servers and at home) ... no DNS 
resolution for rest.akismet.com

Mark Jaquith wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2006, at 4:03 AM, Matt Mullenweg wrote:
>
>> What you just described is a DNS error. You can try visiting that 
>> domain in your browser or pinging it.
>
> Same problem here.  I'm @ Comcast.net
>
> powerbook:~ mark$ ping rest.akismet.com
>     ping: cannot resolve rest.akismet.com: Unknown host
> powerbook:~ mark$ ping [MY_API_KEY].rest.akismet.com
>     ping: cannot resolve [MY_API_KEY].rest.akismet.com: Unknown host
> powerbook:~ mark$ ping -c 1 akismet.com
>     PING akismet.com (72.21.44.242): 56 data bytes
>     64 bytes from 72.21.44.242: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=49.013 ms
>
> Same thing from my server (in Las Vegas, on a different network).
>
> Same thing from a Rackspace server.
>
> -- 
> Mark Jaquith
> http://txfx.net/
>
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