LJ & the DW Cross-Posting Issues

[chomiji]

So LJ sent me a response that actually makes a certain amount of sense to me, on the basis of some issues we've had at work with external database services:

At the time your request was opened, some new IP addresses Dreamwidth began using to crosspost to LiveJournal had been blocked by automated processes. These have since been removed, and Dreamwidth's IP addresses are whitelisted within our system. If you are still having issues with this, LiveJournal does not offer support for Dreamwidth's crossposter; you will need to contact Dreamwidth's support department for assistance with any problems remaining with this feature.

Of course, they're being somewhat shirty about DW, but that sort of IP issue is something I've encountered previously where two services are supposed to be working together online. But I was having the problem again this afternoon ... I guess I will send this info to DW's sys admin folks, although I imagine they know already.

Comments

[blueraccoon]

That is good to know, and yeah, I'm still having problems. What I've found is happening lately is it doesn't succeed, and then, HOURS later, it shows up. Which is annoying because by that point I've already manually posted it and have to delete the duplicate. Sigh.

LJ crosspost failure

[chomiji]

What about the notification to your DW inbox? Are you getting those pretty much right away when it actually fails?

[carmarthen]

I haven't been able to get anything to crosspost in weeks, if not months...

[chomiji]

Since I got that response from LJ, I've had only one incident where I had to try again and again. They've pretty much been going straight through now.

You might want to clear your browser cache, although I didn't need to do that. Still, it couldn't hurt.