No reply yet from the Jetpack support team (they probably don’t work on the weekends). I did speak with my hosting provider and they don’t see anything that would be blocking the connection on their end. They confirmed they’re running an apache web server.
I also tried issuing the curl command:
curl -i -H ‘Content-Type: text/xml’ –data ‘<?xml version=”1.0&”?><methodCall><methodName>demo.sayHello</methodName><params></params></methodCall>’ ‘https://rfivemainline.com/xmlrpc.php’
And I got back: Hello!
So it seems to be connecting, but still no luck on the publicize options.