Phil Haack wrote: > I tried pinging it, and it didn't come up. Is Akismet having DNS problems? Yep it was, I posted to the Akismet blog about it. http://akismet.com/blog/2006/12/dns-outage/ Very sorry for the problem guys. -- Matt Mullenweg http://photomatt.net | http://wordpress.org http://automattic.com | http://akismet.com