turn off all outbound pings, etc.

  • i set up a wordpress install on my local computer so i can learn it. i plan on setting up a blog for a local club.

    i turned off everything i could find in the admin screens for communicating with these third-party services, deleted all the ‘preloaded’ links, even the default first article.

    yet apache continually wants to talk to 209.237.226.237 which appears to be technorati. how can i turn that off? i don’t want to ping out, this is a sandbox install on ‘localhost, and is behind a cisco router. there’s no way in, so there’s no point in pinging services or other blogs.

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  • That’s probably coming from the Dashboard, you’d need to disable the dashboard which talks to a couple of external feeds including two from WordPress and one from Technorati.

    Thread Starter ernie

    (@ernie)

    thanks matt.. i just had found those… stupid windows, i do a recursive search in /www/wp/* for files containing ‘technorati’ (i had suspected something in the code) and it finds NOTHING…

    commented those three feeds, and have everything else turned off.. so hopefully that’ll take care of mysterious traffic and inbound pings and searches….

    is there a graceful way to toggle the dashboard or just it’s feeds, or is commenting out the middle part of wp-admin/index.php as pretty as it gets?

    i remember installing an older version of wp awhile back on a live server to take a quick peek at it.. never posted or published the url anywhere.. played around with it for a few hours and pretty much just forgot about it for a couple weeks. yet it got a bunch of traffic (search engines and update services).. it even made google, got the attention of the baaaad r1aa bots and everything in that short amount of time! didn’t notice it til i was digging through logs looking for something else. that got me to realize, the www wasn’t a ‘web’ before, more like a maze with no exit, but blogs are what really, truly makes it a ‘web’.

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