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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #21509, comment 19

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6	6	That option only applies to XML-RPC methods that check user credentials, but pingbacks/trackbacks are anonymous and thus do not fall under that check.
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8		There are opportunities for the community to write plugins or better documentation on how to block ping/trackback requests either at the PHP level (e.g., by hooking the `xmlrpc_call` ~~method~~ and `die`ing for these methods) or the web server/proxy level (e.g., nginx or Varnish). But just disabling XML-RPC by default will not help with the DDOS issues.
	8	There are opportunities for the community to write plugins or better documentation on how to block ping/trackback requests either at the PHP level (e.g., by hooking the `xmlrpc_call` action and `die`ing for these methods) or the web server/proxy level (e.g., nginx or Varnish). But just disabling XML-RPC by default will not help with the DDOS issues.