Title: error message
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# error message

 *  Resolved [chez-victoria](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chez-victoria/)
 * (@chez-victoria)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-146/)
 * Even though my backups seem to be working fine, the page still displays this 
   error message:
 * BackUpWordPress has detected a problem. wp-cron.php is returning a name lookup
   timed out response which could mean cron jobs aren’t getting fired properly. 
   BackUpWordPress relies on wp-cron to run scheduled back ups. See the FAQ for 
   more details.
 * What should I do to fix it? Already tried adding `define( 'ALTERNATE_WP_CRON',
   true );` to wp-config.php but the message still appears.
 * Thank you!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-146/#post-3231298)
 * If your backups are working fine then it’s ok to simply ignore the message.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-146/#post-3231298)
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