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Franchise_24 wrote:I think Rick has fell off the face of the earth, or is not checking the forums in the last month+...

yeah but he has a real paying job too.

Or he could be on holidays again ... back to making the suds at the brewery

frcorey wrote:

Franchise_24 wrote:I think Rick has fell off the face of the earth, or is not checking the forums in the last month+...

yeah but he has a real paying job too.

So do I, as I'm sure you do as well

All of the above. Brewing, working, and traveling.

ah brewing,
at least the face has not fallen off Rick!

Anybody else having problems connecting to Worldlink?

Ragtop wrote:Anybody else having problems connecting to Worldlink?

Yes, it seems to be down again. Hopefully the Questman can get things fixed asap.

Anyone ever get this figured out? My BBS has been down for 2 weeks due to a flood, but now that I am starting to get the systems back online WorldLink is still not connecting...

Thanks,
Neal

Franchise_24 wrote:Anyone ever get this figured out? My BBS has been down for 2 weeks due to a flood, but now that I am starting to get the systems back online WorldLink is still not connecting...

Thanks,
Neal

Its been down scince my previous post about a week or so ago, I am sure they are working on it.

Stoneslinger76 wrote:

Franchise_24 wrote:Anyone ever get this figured out? My BBS has been down for 2 weeks due to a flood, but now that I am starting to get the systems back online WorldLink is still not connecting...

Thanks,
Neal

Its been down scince my previous post about a week or so ago, I am sure they are working on it.

Doesn't appear anything is being done to get WorldLink back online....

Personally I dont run this... but it would be nice of Rick to pop in once and again.

Drex wrote:Personally I dont run this... but it would be nice of Rick to pop in once and again.

I agree. He doesn't stop by much anymore. And before the one forum member pops in and says "he has a full time job", so do I and probably most of the rest of us

Franchise_24 wrote:

Drex wrote:Personally I dont run this... but it would be nice of Rick to pop in once and again.

I agree. He doesn't stop by much anymore. And before the one forum member pops in and says "he has a full time job", so do I and probably most of the rest of us

well who here could offer 100% uptime of a worldlink server?
i'll run your name by him in an email.

dspain wrote:

Franchise_24 wrote:

Drex wrote:Personally I dont run this... but it would be nice of Rick to pop in once and again.

I agree. He doesn't stop by much anymore. And before the one forum member pops in and says "he has a full time job", so do I and probably most of the rest of us

well who here could offer 100% uptime of a worldlink server?
i'll run your name by him in an email.

What platform does it run on? Does it take a Full WG Install or is it a separate Module.

I've offered before, I have a Dedicated Server hanging at HostGator with Quad Core 2.93 Ghz CPU, 8 GB RAM, 1TB RAID 5 Hard Drive Space running Windows Server 2008 R2.

You think this would be fast enough?

Syclops wrote:

dspain wrote:

Franchise_24 wrote: I agree. He doesn't stop by much anymore. And before the one forum member pops in and says "he has a full time job", so do I and probably most of the rest of us

well who here could offer 100% uptime of a worldlink server?
i'll run your name by him in an email.

What platform does it run on? Does it take a Full WG Install or is it a separate Module.

I've offered before, I have a Dedicated Server hanging at HostGator with Quad Core 2.93 Ghz CPU, 8 GB RAM, 1TB RAID 5 Hard Drive Space running Windows Server 2008 R2.

You think this would be fast enough?

prolly an overkill, i found that all this new stuff chokes WG up too much.
especially on win7 im getting all sorts of btrieve errors every now and then.

i just redid a whole new server just to hold tele-arena sql and im redoing every one of my modules to use sqlite now.

I've got a couple more older Servers hanging on my Cable Modem 24/7 that are mostly just spinning away not doing much of anything.

Syclops wrote:

dspain wrote:

Franchise_24 wrote: I agree. He doesn't stop by much anymore. And before the one forum member pops in and says "he has a full time job", so do I and probably most of the rest of us

well who here could offer 100% uptime of a worldlink server?
i'll run your name by him in an email.

What platform does it run on? Does it take a Full WG Install or is it a separate Module.

I've offered before, I have a Dedicated Server hanging at HostGator with Quad Core 2.93 Ghz CPU, 8 GB RAM, 1TB RAID 5 Hard Drive Space running Windows Server 2008 R2.

You think this would be fast enough?

ok so im a 1/3 of the speed.

It's the Upstream that really counts if it starts getting a bunch of traffic.

Your Cable Modem Upstream is about 1/10th of my Dedicated and a hell of alot better than my Cable Modem Upstream

That Dedicated costs me about 450.00 Per Month and comes with 10 TB of Bandwidth and 16 IP Addresses

Syclops wrote:It's the Upstream that really counts if it starts getting a bunch of traffic.

Your Cable Modem Upstream is about 1/10th of my Dedicated and a hell of alot better than my Cable Modem Upstream

That Dedicated costs me about 450.00 Per Month and comes with 10 TB of Bandwidth and 16 IP Addresses

thats not too bad, im gettng reaqdy to get a serious connection going on, starting up one of those adult webcam .coms.

dspain wrote:thats not too bad, im gettng reaqdy to get a serious connection going on, starting up one of those adult webcam .coms.

I've been thinking about a Adult Dating / WebCam Site as well. I've even acquired a Domain Name for my future project, BOINKIN.COM.

Syclops wrote:

dspain wrote:thats not too bad, im gettng reaqdy to get a serious connection going on, starting up one of those adult webcam .coms.

I've been thinking about a Adult Dating / WebCam Site as well. I've even acquired a Domain Name for my future project, BOINKIN.COM.

haha nice.

yeah its definately big bucks if done right, i have spent the past 13-14 months just working on visions, impact statements, and the way i want things to run.

i dont wanan be another smut site i want all ads outside the site to be clean and the site itself to look very professional until you log in to keep the stuff from kids.
also got a badass idea for "credit" purchases which is what will be used for their perm inute charges with the girls, and not only live stuff but video streaming for X credits per minute, photo galleries, i want the whole 9.

me and the ole lady been planning it for a couple years now gonna get the wheels turning on it soon though.

Check out this PHP Software called Dolphin 7. http://www.boonex.com Pretty reasonable and a ton of add-ons for it including a multi-user video chat module for about 300.00. They even have Mobile Apps available.

Still no Worldlink. Has anybody been able to contact Rick?

Ragtop wrote:Still no Worldlink. Has anybody been able to contact Rick?

I have sent a few messages not response, will see if Dspain can get thru to him.

Stoneslinger76 wrote:

Ragtop wrote:Still no Worldlink. Has anybody been able to contact Rick?

I have sent a few messages not response, will see if Dspain can get thru to him.

i got through to him a while ago regarding GALSQL

but there was some delay between responses so he may be busy with something.

thats why i had to make my own SQLite SDK for wg which ships with a teleconference module to help sysops/isv developers get their foot in the door.

Still no answer from Rick. Guess I'll keep checking in to see if he's fixed it or not. But until then, I'm going to set my Worldlink to connect to Netvillage.

Ragtop wrote:Still no answer from Rick. Guess I'll keep checking in to see if he's fixed it or not. But until then, I'm going to set my Worldlink to connect to Netvillage.

That probably wont work as the files requirments are different.

It's working fine. Only a couple boards connected though, so not much different than not being connected at all. Except I don't have to get the Unable to connect to Worldlink message ever couple minutes...

Ragtop wrote:It's working fine. Only a couple boards connected though, so not much different than not being connected at all. Except I don't have to get the Unable to connect to Worldlink message ever couple minutes...

Hahaha. just config the scheduler to only call at 12:00pm then at 3am, 10x each. Then you'll only get 20 connection fail messages. Would be nice to see WL back up.

My question is, why hasn't WorldLink Server been released for all of us to run if we want to. At least there would be Multiple WL Hubs to select from.

I know that there are at least a few of us that could support putting up a full time WL Server. Doing that might actually breath some life back into this product.

Syclops wrote:My question is, why hasn't WorldLink Server been released for all of us to run if we want to. At least there would be Multiple WL Hubs to select from.

I know that there are at least a few of us that could support putting up a full time WL Server. Doing that might actually breath some life back into this product.

i think the thing gcomm wanted to do was be the only hub available hence it wasd an internal system used by them.

but yes we should be able to do different hubs now.

Welp,

Ragtop is right, Netvillage's worldlink is working again. For how long who knows, but I guess everyone can log into that for now until Rick resurfaces.

Spoke to Rick yesterday and he said he was going to try to get ahold of the guy who runs the server and try to figure out what's going on.

15 days later and still haven't heard back.

Franchise_24 wrote:15 days later and still haven't heard back.

another 15 days later theme

Sure wish we could get this fixed.

Worldlink has been down for like 3 months now. It sure would be nice if we could get this up. What is the BBS telnet address who hosts it? Is that BBS still up? If so has anyone contacted the Sysop to ask what is going on? Just curious.

Franchise_24 wrote:Worldlink has been down for like 3 months now. It sure would be nice if we could get this up. What is the BBS telnet address who hosts it? Is that BBS still up? If so has anyone contacted the Sysop to ask what is going on? Just curious.

yeah, rots a ruck.

Any one of us could do a better job Hosting the Worldlink Server. I have a Server right here in my Office that runs 24/7 and is sitting there doing almost nothing. I work out of my Home Office, so monitoring it would be a piece of cake.

True. I'll give Randy a shout and if no good I'll start needing volunteers.

Is is possible to set up multiple WL servers and have the servers connect to each other also? That way, no matter which one we connect to, we still have everyone connected and even if one goes down, we can connect to another and still have everyone connected.

Ragtop wrote:Is is possible to set up multiple WL servers and have the servers connect to each other also? That way, no matter which one we connect to, we still have everyone connected and even if one goes down, we can connect to another and still have everyone connected.

what we need are people that are volunteering to stick with it. i understand bbsing "is dead" as they say it and yes its not as popular as it used to be but hell let it sit on a small server in the back room and let her run, i know websites still hosted on people's computers right now that wont even display in any IE browser post 4.1 cause they are so old yet still online.

i got a wg2 bbs running righ beside me that still got 20 modems connected to her, even though shes using major tcp/ip
and while it wont answer dial-in calls it still answers telnet conenctions
its not in the way so no need to take it down.

so the next WL server admin we get please stick around or don;t commit to something you cannot see through.

I agree 100%. It doesn't take much to run these things, and other than checking occasionally to make sure it hasn't crashed, require almost no attention if you didn't want to mess with it. I was just suggesting multiple servers as an option in case one does crash/die/whatever. Just wasn't sure if it was possible to set them up that way. It would be nice if it could and all the connections showed up on all the boards, regardless of which server they connect to.

Ragtop wrote:I agree 100%. It doesn't take much to run these things, and other than checking occasionally to make sure it hasn't crashed, require almost no attention if you didn't want to mess with it. I was just suggesting multiple servers as an option in case one does crash/die/whatever. Just wasn't sure if it was possible to set them up that way. It would be nice if it could and all the connections showed up on all the boards, regardless of which server they connect to.

i've never seen the WL server itself but maybe it could run liek a mirror site does, i dunno.

but then again netvillage has one online and when Rick's is online do they see each other? i dunno.

i got plenty servers all unix-based though, the only win32 stuff i do really is borland stuff for wg or an occasional standalone c++ server,
was playing with mutants but wanna talk to majorsoft before getting too serious, and JP gave me permission to develop tradewars 2 - 500T for wg as long as it remains a turn based trading game and doesnt directly compete with the features of tw2002, anyhow, got off topic
yeah i'm not sure they can run like that but one could always make it work i suppose.
i was talking with a guy a couple years ago about making a WL-messenger like aim, etc.. he said he had to WL code but we lsot touch, good thing Rick has one, we need a static server and a mirror or 2.
if one address dont connect have it code to try address#2, address#3, repeat ....

The way they are currently set up, when you are connected to one, you don't see anything about the other. And that may be how it has to be. There are options for multiple servers to connect to but you can only connect to one at a time (as far as I know), and it doesn't seem to scroll through them if it doesn't connect. I keep both addresses in there so I can easily switch them out manually when one goes down.

On a side note, I read in the docs that WL can be used to send email to internet email addresses, outside of the worldlink network. I've tried to get mine set up to send this way since I can't send any other way, but no luck. Any idea how to set this up?

Ragtop wrote:The way they are currently set up, when you are connected to one, you don't see anything about the other. And that may be how it has to be. There are options for multiple servers to connect to but you can only connect to one at a time (as far as I know), and it doesn't seem to scroll through them if it doesn't connect. I keep both addresses in there so I can easily switch them out manually when one goes down.

On a side note, I read in the docs that WL can be used to send email to internet email addresses, outside of the worldlink network. I've tried to get mine set up to send this way since I can't send any other way, but no luck. Any idea how to set this up?

WL also has a forums option, so we could use WL forums and link em between systems.
when i get some time i'll read more into it all.

Ragtop wrote:The way they are currently set up, when you are connected to one, you don't see anything about the other. And that may be how it has to be. There are options for multiple servers to connect to but you can only connect to one at a time (as far as I know), and it doesn't seem to scroll through them if it doesn't connect. I keep both addresses in there so I can easily switch them out manually when one goes down.

On a side note, I read in the docs that WL can be used to send email to internet email addresses, outside of the worldlink network. I've tried to get mine set up to send this way since I can't send any other way, but no luck. Any idea how to set this up?

The mail side of worldlink use to work but was disabled on the worldlink server due to the amount of spam. Your probably best to disable cnf option USEWL as the worldlink server will no longer accept mail. Hopefully it will be back up soon, I see a post from Questman saying they are working on it.

While Questman's WL server has been down, I've been connecting to the netvillage server (don't judge me ) I've noticed that all day long, boards connect to it for a couple minutes and then log off. The way it's happening looks like connecting, sending mail and disconnecting. So I think the netvillage server is still set up for this. I just need to figure out how to configure it to send.

If I can get it to work on there, I will connect to Questman's primarily but hit the netvillage server periodically to send mail. Unless Questman will open his back up but limit it to us somehow.

Ragtop wrote:While Questman's WL server has been down, I've been connecting to the netvillage server (don't judge me ) I've noticed that all day long, boards connect to it for a couple minutes and then log off. The way it's happening looks like connecting, sending mail and disconnecting. So I think the netvillage server is still set up for this. I just need to figure out how to configure it to send.

If I can get it to work on there, I will connect to Questman's primarily but hit the netvillage server periodically to send mail. Unless Questman will open his back up but limit it to us somehow.

The options in CNF are pretty much straight forward, just be sure to use the prefix WL:Styker@themajorbbs.com and not IN:Stryker@themajorbbs.com to send mail throught worldlink.
If you use the prefix
WL: worldgroup will try to send the message thru worldlink
IN: will send thru worldgroups internal smtp.
You can change the prefix IN and WL to other letters in CNF but you will also need to edit the text string help and others to match.

Any updates on the WorldLink server back up or passing the "hubship" off to someone else?