You cannot use telnet to validate links...but one suggestion is to take the links from the validate.db and paste them into your links.db off-line via a text editor or spreadsheet program. But make sure that you re-number the linksid.txt file when you do this.

To verify your links, you can use Cron to do this (refer to the FAQ in the Resource Center written by Bobsie) or simply use the following command line when you are connected to the cgi-bin directory where your nph-verify.cgi script is located:


This will create a log file that you can read and check links from.

Regards,

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Eliot Lee....
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