Connection Refused When Attempting to Contact plug.phoenix.az.us

[Kevin Brown]

> Unable to reach the PLUG page.
> 
> Keep getting the dreaded "The connection was refused when attempting to
> contact plug.phoenix.az.us".

The site is up and reachable for me (qwest DSL).

> My firewall shows a blocked incoming ICMP from remote host 255.255.255.255
> and a block incoming ICMP from remote host 139.130.97.62 at about the same
> time of one attempt however this does not seem to be repeatable.

If the responses aren't repeatable then they are unrelated to your 
problem.  255.255.255.255 is just a blanket broadcast and the other IP 
belongs to an ISP in .au
Name:    apnic1-new.lnk.telstra.net
Address:  139.130.97.62