I don't know if this is related to http://drupal.org/node/13865 -- this certainly counts as "over-aggressive" but what I'm experiencing is Trackbacks within my own site, pinging other posts. I am not entering any trackback URLs, but this is happening anyway. Trackback seems to be grabbing internal site URLs on its own -- how, I don't know.

The problems seem to happen just with revising "book" pages. (I have a series of site information pages linked together in a book. These pages get updated now and then.)

For example, if I make an edit to my "faq" page or "housekeeping" page, trackback goes and pings a trackback to another post seemingly at random. (One time it was another user's blog. The most recent time it was a blog entry of my own -- I got the first few lines of my own faq page posted as a trackback to one of my own unrelated blog posts.)

Another problem is the persistence of the trackback. I can go ahead and delete the trackback comment where it appears, but I cannot delete the trackback URL from the original page's post. I can see the data there displayed at the bottom of my book page info when I edit the page, but I cannot get at that info to delete it. So there seems to be no way to correct this erroneous behavior. Frustratingly, the next time I go and revise that page, the trackbacked pages will be pinged yet again.

I posted this as "critical" because it's something that can make a total mess of a site, not to mention rather embarrassing. (Why is she trackbacking her own posts at random?) I don't have the busiest site, but already it's a problem, confusing other users and leaving me very frustrated.

I hope this is helpful and can be debugged and fixed soon. Thanks!

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ac4lt’s picture

Title: Random Trackbacks automatically happening within website » I see it also

I've seen this same thing happen. I don't know what was causing it, but suddenly I'd notice random trackbacks. I've disabled the module until I can investigate further and it's not a critical thing for me, but it is peculiar.

grohk’s picture

Title: I see it also » Random Trackbacks automatically happening within website

Setting title back to original.

chrisada’s picture

Another confirmation.

The trackback is sometimes random, but this doesn't occur just for on-site links. The autodiscovery really needs fixing.

And probably trackbacking on the same site should be turned off altogether?

ankur’s picture

You can now switch off auto-discovery with the version of trackback in the CVS head branch. Be careful for some database changes though.

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/trackback/?on...

-Ankur

media girl’s picture

Will this work with 4.5.1 or just CVS?

Anonymous’s picture

I found a workaround for trackbacking within the blog. In a post today, I used a relative, rather than absolute URL to refer to one of my own posts ... and it worked swimmingly.

Anonymous’s picture