Occasionally there are problems with the central site. It's working for me right now, though it is pretty slow. It's probably just a lot of traffic or the devs are improving it. Try it later and it should work fine.

The plot thickens...

The website that I am having this problem on is remotely hosted (by aplus.net). I recently set up a linux environment with Apache 2.0, PHP 5 and MySQL 5 and, to my surprise, I am not having any issues with connecting to the remote server.

What could be preventing my production site (www.andrew-renee.com) from connecting? Could it be my hosting service blocking something? Is it environmental? I do not have access to a command prompt, just FTP.

Thanks
-Andrew

bd80599, try setting $debug = 1 in /conf/_advanced.php and see if it gives you more details in case of failure. At least on the antispam update it should give you the whole answer.

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