Title: update-links error message
Last modified: August 18, 2016
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# update-links error message
* [lyteforce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lyteforce/)
* (@lyteforce)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-links-error-message/)
* I setup a CRON job to update my links, but get either of the following two error
messages:
* ERROR 1
`
Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to api.pingomatic.
com:80 in /home/USERNAME/public_html/wp-admin/update-links.php on line
26
* ERROR 2
` An Error Occurred An
Error Occurred
500 read timeout
* Does this have something to do with the job I setup or something more to it?
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* [masquerade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/masquerade/)
* (@masquerade)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-links-error-message/#post-256106)
* Its ping-o-matic’s fault, its down all the time nowadays
* Thread Starter [lyteforce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lyteforce/)
* (@lyteforce)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-links-error-message/#post-256219)
* Thanks for the info. As this was the first time I had setup something like this…
wasn’t too sure what was causing the problem (especially with the two different
errors).
* [roderickvd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roderickvd/)
* (@roderickvd)
* [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-links-error-message/#post-256342)
* Is a fix expected anytime soon now? My mailbox is filling kinda fast, so I’m
thinking I might hack out the error message otherwise.
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* Last activity: [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-links-error-message/#post-256342)
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