That's interesting. It may be that your WP host has a bad reputation and attempts by WP to access some web sites are being blocked by overzealous intrusion-detection software, or perhaps it's as simple as a routing error or intermittant connections.
I have several IDS modules in WP that block sketchy bots, bad/partial/misformed requests, excessive requests coming in from CN, RU, RO, etc.
I you have the time to debug, you can try terminal access from the host, curl'ing or wget'ting the URLs, to see if there's some sketchy redirection or something else. ' And sometimes you just have to use the Bulk Actions to dismiss a whole bunch of annoying reposts. GMane, for example, lost a huge portion of their mailing list archives, including a bunch of links to some of my LUG groups. I could use the bulk tools to unlink the whole lot.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 7:35 PM Ed Leafe ed@leafe.com wrote:
On Apr 23, 2019, at 6:21 PM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
I have a dead link plugin for Wordpress that marks all the active, good links as broken <sigh>. What is your blog running?
Huh, that’s what I’ve been using. It finds dead links, sure, but I got so many false positives that I turned it off.
-- Ed Leafe
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