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After months of accepting spam through my acquaintance forms I absitively it was time to add reCAPTCHA to them in the achievement of stemming the course of garbage. This now beneath the ascendancy of Google I anticipation there wasn’t activity to be an affair with this. Having aloof installed reCAPTCHA on my works websites I knew what to do and all went able-bodied on those sites. On the Friday I did 3 forms on my own sites and all formed as expected, on the Saturday I did the aftermost anatomy I had, but that one didn’t work. All I kept accepting was a ‘could not accessible socket’ error.

Initially I anticipation I charge accept fabricated some absurdity in the cipher but afterwards blockage the cipher adjoin that which I had done the day afore I could see no error. And added over the 3 forms I did the day afore that worked, now no best formed and displayed the aforementioned absurdity message, what the hell?? Best arresting was the actuality that this was all the bulletin said and gave no clue as to what was causing it. I fabricated a cardinal of attempts to acquisition which area of cipher that was at accountability by abacus echo’s throughout the php cipher but none of them showed, alone that accursed absurdity message. I anticipation there charge be article amiss with the server.

Someone charge accept had this affair afore so I angry my absorption to Google for an answer. As I started to blazon ‘could not accessible socket’ the autocomplete came up with ‘could not accessible atrium recaptcha’, ah ha! But I couldn’t anticipate why it could accept formed bygone and not today? Afterwards account abounding annoying posts’ I begin this: code.google.com/p/recaptcha/issues/detail?id=26 which although didn’t accept the exact acknowledgment it did advice me to realise the answers to my own issues.

After account through this cilia I came to the cessation that my botheration was 2 bend and explained why it had formed bygone and not today. The capital botheration was my web host, in their attack to be accessible they alien (a continued time back) blocking of approachable access to alien IPs from aural my sites. This is one to be acquainted of if you are auto blogging application wp-o-matic, any augment you add will best acceptable be blocked by this until you add the IP to the accustomed account from aural your ascendancy panel.

I accept there is a acceptable acumen for them accomplishing this but it can brainstorm it has acquired nightmares for the inexperienced. Obviously it had formed bygone because it was new, already the server knew the affiliation was actuality fabricated it blocked it. It was apparently the cardinal of tests I did that fabricated the affiliation get noticed and was possibly a acceptable job it was noticed so bound or I ability not accept noticed it for some time.

So which IP was I to add to the accustomed list? The band of cipher in recaptchalib.php articular as the botheration in the aloft cilia was:

define(“RECAPTCHA_VERIFY_SERVER”, google.com );

So what I bare was the IP of google.com. mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx is a actual advantageous apparatus I accept been application for a continued time. A DNS lookup for google.com gave me 5 options for an IP, 74.125.227.48 to 74.125.227.52, so now I have:

define(“RECAPTCHA_VERIFY_SERVER”, “74.125.227.48″);

Adding this IP to the accustomed alien IP account from aural my ascendancy console sorted the botheration on all my forms. Score!

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