Akismet 404 resulting in server errors?

Is there a problem with the akismet servers? I’m getting the “Unable to reach any Akismet servers.” error message and I think i’ve tracked it down to a 404.

The code requests rest.akismet.com which works fine, but it also looks up the ip’s for this hostname. It then requests these ip’s instead of hostnames and is 310 redirected to a akismet.com url which 404s and results in the error message:

$ curl -i -L -d "key=foo&blog=bar" http://rest.akismet.com/1.1/verify-key
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:14:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Connection: close
Content-length: 5

valid

 $ host rest.akismet.com
rest.akismet.com has address 72.233.69.3
rest.akismet.com has address 66.135.58.61
rest.akismet.com has address 66.135.58.62
rest.akismet.com has address 72.233.69.2

 $ curl -i -L -d "key=foo&blog=bar" http://66.135.58.62/1.1/verify-key
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:15:03 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 178
Connection: keep-alive
Location: http://akismet.com/1.1/verify-key

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: nginx
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:15:03 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: close

What’s going on?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet/