I use hostventrilo.com and it has always shown before now, so I don't think that the host is the problem. I'll have to doublecheck.
The program that I checked it with is the "ventrilo_status" script provided by Ventrilo. If this isn't returning any further information, then it is indeed a server-side setting. They may have changed config on you (maybe migrating your vent server over to a new one with a different config).
But it's definitely server-side.