Title: update-links.php problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# update-links.php problem

 *  [piginzen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piginzen/)
 * (@piginzen)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-linksphp-problem/)
 * Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to api.pingomatic.com:80 in /home/xxx/
   public_html/wp-admin/update-links.php on line 26
 * I have been getting this error when trying to run update-links.php for a few 
   weeks now.
 * Has the syntax for updating pingomatic changed?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [billh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billh/)
 * (@billh)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-linksphp-problem/#post-337996)
 * I get this error periodically when I activate the Blogroll Update plugin. Essentially
   what it means is that the Pingomatic server is unavailable at that particular
   moment.
 *  Thread Starter [piginzen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piginzen/)
 * (@piginzen)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-linksphp-problem/#post-338044)
 * I am always getting that error…
 * 🙁
 *  [niziol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niziol/)
 * (@niziol)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-linksphp-problem/#post-338049)
 * I also get this error all the time, the update links function has not worked 
   even once for me.
 * It seems that there is a problem with the api.pingomatic.com subdomain, it doesn’t
   resolve correctly.
 *  Thread Starter [piginzen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piginzen/)
 * (@piginzen)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-linksphp-problem/#post-338427)
 * Has anyone figured this out? 🙁
 * Or does anyone have any other suggestions?
 *  [niziol](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niziol/)
 * (@niziol)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-linksphp-problem/#post-338430)
 * Unfortunatly, I don’t think there is anything we can do, the problem seems to
   be with api.pingomatic.com. It seems to be down or inaccessible for whatever 
   reason.
 * It seems anyone who has tried to contact them (at pingomatic) regarding this,
   does not recieve any reply, nor have any threads regarding this (in the recent
   past) been commented to by Mr. Mullenweg or anyone else who would have insight
   into when this may be fixed or if there is a work-a-round.
 * Here’s hoping!
 * Michael.
 *  Thread Starter [piginzen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piginzen/)
 * (@piginzen)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-linksphp-problem/#post-338460)
 * Thanks Michael.
 * On a side note… Where do I change the format of the updated site. IE. When a 
   site is updated on my links page there are brackets that appear around the link(
   <<Link>> ) – Does anyone know where I change this? Or what file to modify?
 * Thanks.

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 * [pingomatic](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pingomatic/)
 * [update-links.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/update-links-php/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [piginzen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/piginzen/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-linksphp-problem/#post-338460)
 * Status: not resolved

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