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1. leighm
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Hello all,

   My blog is being pinged excessively by an IP looking for a trackback
   It looks like this:
   http://leighm.net/blog/index.php/2006/04/26/and-our-oil-is-still-under-their-sand-insurgents-cripple-iraq-oil-sector-reuters/trackback/_

   The trailing underscore is incorrect and is causing the trackback to go to my main page.

   20 times ...and that's just in the last hour.

   It seems to be from this IP: 65.39.251.54

   I've tried using robots.txt to no avail.
   I've also tried resetting the trackback url.

   Any suggestions?

2. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Might give Bad Behavior a shot?

   http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/

3. leighm
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I'll give it a look.

4. leighm
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Installed & activated... we'll see.

5. leighm
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Nope.. but BAStats shows a user agent now.

   65.39.251.54
   Referring Page:
   User Agent: MSIE 6.0

   9 pages in the last 10 minutes to that trackback Url.

   It's someone's browser?

6. leighm
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Any other Ideas?

7. leighm
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Found something that works:

   .htaccess file

   deny from [full domain address]

   Albeit manually applied, I'm only seeing a couple of major offenders

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