[Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] There was a problem while notifying Ask.com

I receive this error:

Ping Test

Trying to ping: http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Ffiresafetylabs.com%2Fsitemap.xml.gz. The sections below should give you an idea whats going on.
Errors, Warnings, Notices:
WP_DEBUG was set to false somewhere before. You might not see all debug information until you remove this declaration!

Notice: WP HTTP API Web Request failed: connect() timed out! in /hermes/bosweb/web083/b832/ipg.macready/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap-core.php on line 2373
Result (text only):
Result (HTML):

Please help!

Thanks

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