If you are using OpenBSD to host your wordpress installation, and using the Akismet plug-in to block spam, you may come across set-up problems with Akismet.

The errors that can occur could be either or both of these:

• There was a problem connecting to the Akismet server
• The key you entered could not be verified because a connection to akismet.com could not be established

There may be a couple of issues here.