Title: Help killing wrong trackback link ping
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Help killing wrong trackback link ping

 *  [leighm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leighm/)
 * (@leighm)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-killing-wrong-trackback-link-ping/)
 * 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/_](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?

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-killing-wrong-trackback-link-ping/#post-383066)
 * Might give Bad Behavior a shot?
 * [http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/](http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/)
 *  Thread Starter [leighm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leighm/)
 * (@leighm)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-killing-wrong-trackback-link-ping/#post-383068)
 * I’ll give it a look.
 *  Thread Starter [leighm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leighm/)
 * (@leighm)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-killing-wrong-trackback-link-ping/#post-383073)
 * Installed & activated… we’ll see.
 *  Thread Starter [leighm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leighm/)
 * (@leighm)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-killing-wrong-trackback-link-ping/#post-383079)
 * 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?
 *  Thread Starter [leighm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leighm/)
 * (@leighm)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-killing-wrong-trackback-link-ping/#post-383139)
 * Any other Ideas?
 *  Thread Starter [leighm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leighm/)
 * (@leighm)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-killing-wrong-trackback-link-ping/#post-383510)
 * 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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 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [leighm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leighm/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-killing-wrong-trackback-link-ping/#post-383510)
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