```json
{
    "title": "I can’t connect to rpc.technorati.com",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2005/02/02/i-cant-connect-to-rpctechnoraticom/",
    "datePublished": "2005-02-02",
    "dateModified": "2005-02-02",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "All of my posts for the last 12 hours or so have been hung up in the PING phase. Looks like the Technorati Ping Server (rpc.technorati.com) is down or unavailable.…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# I can’t connect to rpc.technorati.com

All of my posts for the last 12 hours or so have been hung up in the PING phase. Looks like the Technorati Ping Server (rpc.technorati.com) is down or unavailable. I can't even open a TCP connection to it.