{"id":7533646,"date":"2016-06-30T16:36:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T16:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/some-xml-rpc-request-not-generating-logs\/"},"modified":"2016-09-01T16:09:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T16:09:58","slug":"some-xml-rpc-request-not-generating-logs","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/some-xml-rpc-request-not-generating-logs\/","title":{"rendered":"Some XML RPC request not generating logs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,
\nSome of the xmlrpc requests are generating auth log like :<\/p>\n

\n

Authentication failure for xxxx from 51.255.163.23 via XML-RPC<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But in my apache logs I see a lot of these which are not generating auth logs :
\n(i enabled WP_FAIL2BAN_LOG_PINGBACKS)<\/p>\n

\n

45.55.50.242 – – [30\/Jun\/2016:18:27:34 +0200] “POST \/xmlrpc.php HTTP\/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)”
\n188.68.58.184 – – [30\/Jun\/2016:18:27:35 +0200] “POST \/xmlrpc.php HTTP\/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)”
\n188.68.58.184 – – [30\/Jun\/2016:18:27:35 +0200] “POST \/xmlrpc.php HTTP\/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)”
\n45.55.50.242 – – [30\/Jun\/2016:18:27:38 +0200] “POST \/xmlrpc.php HTTP\/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)”
\n188.68.58.184 – – [30\/Jun\/2016:18:27:46 +0200] “POST \/xmlrpc.php HTTP\/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)”
\n188.68.58.184 – – [30\/Jun\/2016:18:27:47 +0200] “POST \/xmlrpc.php HTTP\/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)”
\n45.55.50.242 – – [30\/Jun\/2016:18:27:48 +0200] “POST \/xmlrpc.php HTTP\/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)”
\n45.55.50.242 – – [30\/Jun\/2016:18:27:52 +0200] “POST \/xmlrpc.php HTTP\/1.0” 200 554 “-” “Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot\/2.1; http:\/\/www.google.com\/bot.html)”\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-fail2ban\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-7533646","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-xmlrpc"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/7533646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/7533646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7533646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}