cross-post failures

test with a lot of text. Oh pockets pockets pockets where are my pockets pockets pockets? And sunshine in the sky is shining bright and new and clean and clear and zingily zing zing zingily zing zing ain't it grand? Oh oh oh yeah.

To the big sky we go grand grand grand, to the big sky we fly, high high high; to the big dome we flow, yo, yo, yo, yo ,yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

And it was the best of times and the worst of times and the highest of flights and lowest of dives, so we tickled the heck out of Martin until he cried fowl.

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Okay, so a post with a single short sentence cross-posts to LJ ok, whether it includes a link or not. But a post with more text like this one is failing.

I keep getting this error:
Failed to crosspost entry to Darkoshi@LiveJournal: Failed to connect to http://www.livejournal.com/interface/xmlrpc.