I can not publish my blogs any more. This only happens for one of my four
blogs. The others works well. The problem started around Christmas time, but I
can not give the exact date.
The error message is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out

I have read about many others with the same problem. The problem appeared at
the same time. Unfortunately I have yet to find a solution for this problem.
I started by looking into my own server to see if I could find an error
there. I could not.
I switched from sftp to ftp publishing to see if that helped. No luck.
I then changed from a hostname to IP address to see if that helped. It did
not.
I do not see any kind of traffic through my firewall when I try to publish
anything.
I then decided to try publish to another IP address, on another ISP. When I
did so I could se traffic. When I did so I got the IP source 72.14.206.132 which
belongs to Google.
This made me believe we have a routing issue on the Internet. But I checked
that as well and it seems to be right. I can at least do a ping back to the
originating IP.
It seems like blogger works from multiple sites. I have found in my logs that
some of my blogs are published from a site in Canada - but I have this problem
when publishing from Google i California.
I hope they find a solution really soon.
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