Title: Pingbacks not logging
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Pingbacks not logging

 *  Resolved [simonmwilson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonmwilson/)
 * (@simonmwilson)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-logging/)
 * I’m trying to log pingbacks so I can fail2ban the IPs. The pingbacks are not 
   getting logged. With this plugin set to System, to write to syslog, I see from
   the plugin code that it is calling to LOG_AUTHPRIV at NOTICE level. That’s fine–
   that facility is operative on my system.
 * I am getting about 10,000 pingbacks per day, but NONE of them trigger this plugin’s
   logging.
 * Catching the POST xml data shows me the following:
 * 93.174.93.234<?xmlversion=”1.0″?>
    <methodCall> <methodName>pingback.ping</methodName
   > <params> <param> <value> <string>[http://www.reportyor.com/?cat=hadise&id=11208</string&gt](http://www.reportyor.com/?cat=hadise&id=11208</string&gt);
   </value> </param> <param> <value> <string>[http://blog.simonandkate.net/20140415/beautiful-new-zealand</string&gt](http://blog.simonandkate.net/20140415/beautiful-new-zealand</string&gt);
   </value> </param> </params> </methodCall>
 * It appears to be a valid pingback. Yes I can disable pingback, but I’d rather
   log them and fail2ban them. I could also just catch xmlrpc.php calls and ban 
   them, but I use xmlrpc…
 * Can this plugin log the pingbacks?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/authentication-and-xmlrpc-log-writer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/authentication-and-xmlrpc-log-writer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Federico Rota](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrrotella/)
 * (@mrrotella)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-logging/#post-7172724)
 * Sorry for the delay of my answer. This plugin log only the pingback error. The
   hook point is [xmlrpc_pingback_error](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/xmlrpc_pingback_error/).
   
   If you need to log each pingback request, this plugin is not usefull. Regards
 *  Plugin Author [Federico Rota](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrrotella/)
 * (@mrrotella)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-logging/#post-7172725)
 * I release a new version of this plugin. Now there are two new features:
    1. **Log each pingback request**
    2. **Stop and Log User Enumeration method (by redirecting to the homepage)**

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 * Last reply from: [Federico Rota](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrrotella/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-not-logging/#post-7172725)
 * Status: resolved