When will update-links work?

I would have to assume that the answer to your second question is “never”….

You might just consider pingoat instead.

Pingoat’s new to me. Any idea how to query it with a list of links?

How do I use pingoat to update my blogroll?

No, I don’t have any ideas because I simply don’t bother with all that.

Podz I believe uses pingoat. There’s a codex article on other options: Update_Services

From that page, this is the link to pingoat: https://www.pingoat.com/

Couple helpful links:

https://www.pingoat.com/goatlog/post/index/4/XMLRPC-server-online
(note the XML-RPC server url listed there)

https://www.pingoat.com/forum/

I think there’s some confusion here between services to ping when you update your weblog and services to query to find out who else has updated theirs. I’m happy to continue to ping pingomatic when I update mine, but I’d like to find a working alternative service to query until the pingomatic api gets fixed.