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Any word on Worldlink again? Seems to have been down for a few days...

Franchise_24 wrote:Any word on Worldlink again? Seems to have been down for a few days...

Last I heard a week or 2 ago, the server went down with hardware problem and Newport is working to restore it.

Hopefully he will get it back online soon.

Also more info here

http://www.themajorbbs.com/bbs/viewtopi ... 2029#12029

Well, it did come back online for a day or two, but I don't think it's been online for several weeks again.

Malakai wrote:Well, it did come back online for a day or two, but I don't think it's been online for several weeks again.

Just tried to connect it went back up sometime today

Stoneslinger76 wrote:

Malakai wrote:Well, it did come back online for a day or two, but I don't think it's been online for several weeks again.

Just tried to connect it went back up sometime today

Whats the address for it?

My worldlink connects everyday and there are only like 4 others listed as connected to worldlink.
Even when connected to other boards no one ever uses it

you must be on don's worldlink server, which I thought was completely down. try connecting to worldlink.themajorbbs.com

Malakai wrote:you must be on don's worldlink server, which I thought was completely down. try connecting to worldlink.themajorbbs.com

well, this one will answer but won't let me on.

frcorey wrote:

Malakai wrote:you must be on don's worldlink server, which I thought was completely down. try connecting to worldlink.themajorbbs.com

well, this one will answer but won't let me on.

You need to get the updated dll from Questman or Newport (tls.wetookyour.tv)

The current server is located at: "worldlink.themajorbbs.com"

I wish we could buy copies of the worldlink server software so systems could have private networks, like the old chatlink systems. course if you have a dos system you can still have private networks. just try to find another system running chatlink thou.

banjaxster wrote:My worldlink connects everyday and there are only like 4 others listed as connected to worldlink.
Even when connected to other boards no one ever uses it

I see alot of boards are not connected 24-7. Seem's like the scheduler doesnt log the bbs's in until 6am EDT. Thier is usually only 3 connected midnight to 6am

theswampbbs
Nostalgiabbs
seabreezen

the rest of you should check you schedules, I have it set to connect from
begin 0010
end 2359
each day of the week with 20 attempts max per day, that way if the WL server is down you wont get pounded with connect error messages.


Also the defualt worldlink channel doesnt seem to work anymore. I am set to connect to the worldlink general chat but hasn't connect to that chat channel since before it went down about a month ago.

frcorey wrote:I wish we could buy copies of the worldlink server software so systems could have private networks, like the old chatlink systems. course if you have a dos system you can still have private networks. just try to find another system running chatlink thou.

That would kind of miss the point of Worldlink.

Just in case anyone doesn't know, worldlink seems to be down again, for at least two days.

Malakai wrote:Just in case anyone doesn't know, worldlink seems to be down again, for at least two days.

I was wondering is their any way to config worldlink to use other connected worldlink bbs as host if the main WL server goes down? or have a second server to serv as backup when the main goes down?

Stoneslinger76 wrote:

Malakai wrote:Just in case anyone doesn't know, worldlink seems to be down again, for at least two days.

I was wondering is their any way to config worldlink to use other connected worldlink bbs as host if the main WL server goes down? or have a second server to serv as backup when the main goes down?

I dont think so. you can put other addresses in the config,
hmm, but only connect 1 for a dial config.

Questman wrote:

frcorey wrote:I wish we could buy copies of the worldlink server software so systems could have private networks, like the old chatlink systems. course if you have a dos system you can still have private networks. just try to find another system running chatlink thou.

That would kind of miss the point of Worldlink.

I don't mean to be an ass, and I'm sure I'm speaking for a few other Sysops on here, but doesn't having the one and only WG Server OFFLINE for 6 months kind of miss the point as well. Just sayin.

Sorry. I've been working 60+ hour weeks. The guy who ran the site didn't have good backups so when his hard drive went down I was hosed.

There are many things I'm trying to do but it hasn't gotten done yet.

Questman wrote:Sorry. I've been working 60+ hour weeks. The guy who ran the site didn't have good backups so when his hard drive went down I was hosed.

There are many things I'm trying to do but it hasn't gotten done yet.

I know you don't really know me, but I've been a Sysop and owned my own Computer Business since 1991.

I use to Beta Test for High Velocity Software (Genesys) and Red Mountain (MADM) back in the day. I've spent probably $15,000 on WG Software over the years and I've got 7 pages of Activation Codes to prove it.

I have Servers that are on-line 24/7 that I could run the Worldlink Server on. One of them is a Dedicated Server located at a Tier 4 Co-Location Facility in Omaha Nebraska called Co-Sentry ( http://www.cosentry.com ) running an Dell PowerEdge 8 Core Xeon, 4GB Ram and 250GB RAID H/D. The other ones are here in my Home/Office, but are also up 24/7 and they've been on-line like that for over 3 years now. Let me know, I'd be glad to help and I'm willing to sign Non Disclosure Agreements or whatever you need to make you feel comfortable.

Kevin Hudson DBA Pro-Data

Syclops wrote:

Questman wrote:Sorry. I've been working 60+ hour weeks. The guy who ran the site didn't have good backups so when his hard drive went down I was hosed.

There are many things I'm trying to do but it hasn't gotten done yet.

I know you don't really know me, but I've been a Sysop and owned my own Computer Business since 1991.

I use to Beta Test for High Velocity Software (Genesys) and Red Mountain (MADM) back in the day. I've spent probably $15,000 on WG Software over the years and I've got 7 pages of Activation Codes to prove it.

I have Servers that are on-line 24/7 that I could run the Worldlink Server on. One of them is a Dedicated Server located at a Tier 4 Co-Location Facility in Omaha Nebraska called Co-Sentry ( http://www.cosentry.com ) running an Dell PowerEdge 8 Core Xeon, 4GB Ram and 250GB RAID H/D. The other ones are here in my Home/Office, but are also up 24/7 and they've been on-line like that for over 3 years now. Let me know, I'd be glad to help and I'm willing to sign Non Disclosure Agreements or whatever you need to make you feel comfortable.

Kevin Hudson DBA Pro-Data

They have new server for WL.

http://www.themajorbbs.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=7193

worldlink.themajorbbs.com should be servicing bbses again tonight.

Questman wrote:worldlink.themajorbbs.com should be servicing bbses again tonight.

Connected

Thanks Questman!

Stoneslinger76 wrote:

Questman wrote:worldlink.themajorbbs.com should be servicing bbses again tonight.

Connected

Thanks Questman!

So naturally mine doesn't work LOL. I went in and got rid of the old addresses and changed it to worldlink.themajorbbs.com and when I try to connet it is connecting to 192.168.1.100 (which is the internal IP of my BBS PC) What the heck is going on? Dspain compiled me some new files when I was using the old worldlink, and I put the new patched .DLL file back on for the linked TC, but I dont know where it is getting that address to connect to when Im telling it to connect to a different one. Any ideas?

**Edit**
Now when I connect it says ERROR DNS LOOKUP (-2) worldlink.themajorbbs.com is not a valid (and it cuts off the txt there)

8:13pm and still not able to connect. Is it working for anyone else?

I changed the DNS. Your DNS server might be lazy. It should resolve to:

Name: worldlink.themajorbbs.com
Address: 205.166.250.238

It might take over 24 hours for your DNS server to get new info.

Be patient. If it doesn't resolve by 10:45 pm EDT I recommend you run a flush DNS (ipconfig /flushdns). If that doesn't work tomorrow I'd call the ISP.

Questman wrote:I changed the DNS. Your DNS server might be lazy. It should resolve to:

Name: worldlink.themajorbbs.com
Address: 205.166.250.238

It might take over 24 hours for your DNS server to get new info.

Be patient. If it doesn't resolve by 10:45 pm EDT I recommend you run a flush DNS (ipconfig /flushdns). If that doesn't work tomorrow I'd call the ISP.

Can I just point it to your IP address or does that change often?

Franchise_24 wrote:8:13pm and still not able to connect. Is it working for anyone else?

Yes a few BBS are connected, I have been conected scince about 8am sept1 and still connected after nightly maintenance.

Is there somewhere I can redownload the Worldgroup module and install it fresh? I seem to have some issues.

I recommend you create a second phone book entry in the Worldlink Client and rename the original one to 'foo'. then go to each entry for each day and manually change the foo to worldlink.themajorbbs.com "phone number". then it should resolve itself.

Questman wrote:I recommend you create a second phone book entry in the Worldlink Client and rename the original one to 'foo'. then go to each entry for each day and manually change the foo to worldlink.themajorbbs.com "phone number". then it should resolve itself.

Yah it connects with no problems. Nothing works tho. Im thinking some of the files maybe dspain made for me are causing issues, even though I reverted back to the old ones. ^U doesn't work, and /? doesnt work, and so on and so forth. When I go into TC Im just in a main TC and cannot join any linked ones.

Franchise_24 wrote:

Questman wrote:I recommend you create a second phone book entry in the Worldlink Client and rename the original one to 'foo'. then go to each entry for each day and manually change the foo to worldlink.themajorbbs.com "phone number". then it should resolve itself.

Yah it connects with no problems. Nothing works tho. Im thinking some of the files maybe dspain made for me are causing issues, even though I reverted back to the old ones. ^U doesn't work, and /? doesnt work, and so on and so forth. When I go into TC Im just in a main TC and cannot join any linked ones.

Check the setting in CNF
"USEWLCH" Use worldlink channel by defualt YES
"GLOBAL" Global Character ^
"GLOCHA" Sysop Global Carachter /

hope that helps you.

Stoneslinger76 wrote:

Franchise_24 wrote:

Questman wrote:I recommend you create a second phone book entry in the Worldlink Client and rename the original one to 'foo'. then go to each entry for each day and manually change the foo to worldlink.themajorbbs.com "phone number". then it should resolve itself.

Yah it connects with no problems. Nothing works tho. Im thinking some of the files maybe dspain made for me are causing issues, even though I reverted back to the old ones. ^U doesn't work, and /? doesnt work, and so on and so forth. When I go into TC Im just in a main TC and cannot join any linked ones.

Check the setting in CNF
"USEWLCH" Use worldlink channel by defualt YES
"GLOBAL" Global Character ^
"GLOCHA" Sysop Global Carachter /

hope that helps you.

Yah, I checked, all of that is correct, so I guess that goes back to my original statement, if there is somewhere I can download a fresh worldlink mod and reinstall it?

Thanks

*Edit*
Ok, so I found an old copy of the BBS and replaced some files and it is working now. Don't know what the problem was, but it works so I guess that is all that matters.

**I was wondering tho, I was in the remote BBS management on the website, and I *DID* see the world link forum manager. How can we make that work so the systems that are linked up and have that?

Thanks!

Franchise_24 wrote: **I was wondering tho, I was in the remote BBS management on the website, and I *DID* see the world link forum manager. How can we make that work so the systems that are linked up and have that?

Thanks!

http//bbsname.xxx/secureweb
http//bbsname.xxx/wl-forum-manager
http//bbsname.xxx/worldlink-scheduler

Make sure 1st off all your web page dir's have been secured in secureweb, more help in other forums here how to do it.

Many people had troubles with WL forums being configured fro the web interface when we set it up way back. Try useing the Client to setup the forums it seemed to take better. Only use the scheduler setup from the sysop console that works best.

Once you get all the forums setup and connected, post a message in them
some other sysop or user will see them and respond to your "test" messages.

So are those forums only for online then with the webpage, or do they work in the forums area of the BBS as well?

Franchise_24 wrote:So are those forums only for online then with the webpage, or do they work in the forums area of the BBS as well?

Yes these ones only work for configuration from webpage.
http//bbsname.xxx/secureweb **** secure all your pages /tele, /polls etc
http//bbsname.xxx/wl-forum-manager
http//bbsname.xxx/worldlink-scheduler

You can also config forums inside the client forum manager and telnet also.

The Forums if configured properly should work like any of your forums. They work similtaneuosly in Telnet, Client, Web interfaces. The only differance being the WL flag meaning they send and recieve to WL server then out to other bbs's. You wont recieve past mail from the worldlink forums, only new messages.

Send a few test messages out in each message base to check if your sending to the WL hub.

You setup Worldlink Forums for the BBS telnet client side the same way you would newsgroups etc.

Questman wrote:You setup Worldlink Forums for the BBS telnet client side the same way you would newsgroups etc.

Ill give it a try. On a side note is it down again cause I haven't been able to connect today...?

It was, briefly, but I fixed it.

There were a few issues over the past week, but I think we're in good shape moving forward.

Initially, the server was at my house for testing, so I didn't have to run down to the data center each time something screwed up.

Once it was stable, I moved it to the data center.

Then we had a firewall problem yesterday, so I built a new firewall, which caused a few hiccups. I installed it today and all is stable.

It should be stable moving forward.

Same goes for High Society. It's in the data center, but I am still building a new server for that system. I might have time this week to complete it, and after that, HS will be stable as well.

Regards,

Randy

repstein wrote:There were a few issues over the past week, but I think we're in good shape moving forward.

Initially, the server was at my house for testing, so I didn't have to run down to the data center each time something screwed up.

Once it was stable, I moved it to the data center.

Then we had a firewall problem yesterday, so I built a new firewall, which caused a few hiccups. I installed it today and all is stable.

It should be stable moving forward.

Same goes for High Society. It's in the data center, but I am still building a new server for that system. I might have time this week to complete it, and after that, HS will be stable as well.

Regards,

Randy

I have noticed a few people trying to use the WorldLink ID type "Virtual"
and they show up as part of xxxx.elwynor.com not sure if that was intended.

I use to always enter tc into worldlink, still set the same use worldlink as default telconferance channel but users got to the domain named channel first. The cnf option USEWLCH is YES use worldlink channel by default but you still have to "join worldlink"

Thanks again for your efforts Randy

Wow, I see that behavior on your BBS. What is the date/time/size of your galtlcw.dll ? 08/08/08 36864 bytes?

How do you set up worldlink? I have the updated DLL but WG refuses to "call" out.

I have "worldlink.themajorbbs.com" to dial in the ANSI setup. I have it scheduled and it does attempt but gives me a "ERROR: BAD COMMAND "worldlink.themajorbbs.com" in the audit trail.

It's almost like the IP is being executed as a command rather than being telnetted to.

Any suggestions? Thanks very much.

kevinp79 wrote:How do you set up worldlink? I have the updated DLL but WG refuses to "call" out.

I have "worldlink.themajorbbs.com" to dial in the ANSI setup. I have it scheduled and it does attempt but gives me a "ERROR: BAD COMMAND "worldlink.themajorbbs.com" in the audit trail.

It's almost like the IP is being executed as a command rather than being telnetted to.

Any suggestions? Thanks very much.

In General Setup check the following

-DNS resolver , HOSTNAM and DOMAIN

-Worldlink Scheduler be sure to use DOMTYP HOSTNAME or DOMAIN

Config the rest of the info about your bbs and the name should show correctly in worldlink. You will need updates from Questman before it will function correctly.

I can see that my board phaseshift.dyndns.org is being reported as dreamline.elwynor.com and I'm not entirely sure why. I am using 3.3 and the updated DLL.

DOMTYP = Domain
DOMAIN = phaseshift.dyndns.org

It calls and works just fine except for this problem.

aaarghh now it won't connect at all.. I can see it getting to the "Worldlink Auto-Sense" on the server, it sends a few packets and nothing.. i'm using Questman's latest DLL as welll.. helpP!!!

Your board is indeed an oddball. I'm not sure what is happening. Is it a stock 3.3 install ?

Questman wrote:Your board is indeed an oddball. I'm not sure what is happening. Is it a stock 3.3 install ?

Yep stock 3.3, nothing really unusual about it. Seems to be working now just fine, but I've noticed that some of the user counts on other systems are inaccurate, especially when no one is online. Is that something new? Other than that, works great.

kevinp79 wrote:

Questman wrote:Your board is indeed an oddball. I'm not sure what is happening. Is it a stock 3.3 install ?

Yep stock 3.3, nothing really unusual about it. Seems to be working now just fine, but I've noticed that some of the user counts on other systems are inaccurate, especially when no one is online. Is that something new? Other than that, works great.

I have to agree Questman, scince he logged into worldlink things havent been correct in the user counts. When he disconnects all returns to normal user counts.

I don't know if this matters, but when I'm on as "Sysop" I'm always invisible, but worldlink still shows 1 user on my BBS but if you'd look at my BBS it shows no one online. Don't know if maybe this is something you are talking about or not, but figured I'd chime in.

Franchise_24 wrote:I don't know if this matters, but when I'm on as "Sysop" I'm always invisible, but worldlink still shows 1 user on my BBS but if you'd look at my BBS it shows no one online. Don't know if maybe this is something you are talking about or not, but figured I'd chime in.

Mmmm not so much..

Seems that my config somehow causes the user list to be incorrect. Kinda odd, and something I'd definitely like to troubleshoot if anyone could help.. Using 3.3 and Questman's DLL, nothing really weird.

Franchise_24 wrote:I don't know if this matters, but when I'm on as "Sysop" I'm always invisible, but worldlink still shows 1 user on my BBS but if you'd look at my BBS it shows no one online. Don't know if maybe this is something you are talking about or not, but figured I'd chime in.

I dont think it you, or being invisible from the console. Worldlink would still see the channel as being active, but not know the user info.