Another workaround for Blogger publishing

Many have experienced problems when publishing content from Blogger. The error message is:

The error message is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out

As you might guess I also have this problem. You can read more about it here.

I did some investigation and finally have managed to make a workaround that works for me.

I pretty early guessed that the source of the problem was network related but could not pinpoint the source of the problem. So I started by trying to publish to other IP addresses to see what happened. For all other ISP's I could see that Blogger tried to publish the content for me.

I started out by using another IP address for Blogger - they published to a different IP address than the normal one. This did not work.

My hosting company (where I work...) have two separated data centers with all infrastructure duplicated. So I then went on and configured inbound NAT in the other data center and routed the traffic back to the original server.

This worked for me and also proves that there is a problem, probably within the Blogger environment itself. I also understand that not everyone can do this by theirself.