I have an online and running minecraft server, but cannot claim it or have it listed. It lists, but shows as dead.

I am running Feed The Beast Monster 1.0.9

I see other servers running feed the beast that are listed, but cannot for the life of me get the server to scan.

Have you opened the query port in the firewall? Have you enabled scanning? Do you have a link to the page or the ip, port , and query port?

I am hosting using pytohost, so I assume these are automated.

Could you explain how I would go about checking and confirming these Manually.

We don't provide support directly for firewalls, so would not be able to help you further there.

For minecraft, we have the requireed settings here http://www.gametracker.com/games/minecraft/forum.php?thread=58741