Hi all.
Here is the issue:
I have MT 3.2 installed.
The setup is thus:
on the same server, on one domain I have the MT admin itself, while the actual blog is running on a different (virtual) domain.
I have MT set to automaticly detect and send internal trackback pings.

However, when I write a post referencing old posts of mine, when MT sends the pings to the old posts, they are blocked.
The activity log shows the error:


I tried disabling the anti-spam plugins temporarly, to see if they are blocking the ping, but that didn't make a difference.

So- How do I ping multiple old posts from a new one without being blocked?

thanks!

OK, solved the issue.

In case anyone else has the same problem- edit mt-config.cgi, uncomment

and add a number.
In addtion, I added the "magic setting"

As described in the thread here.

I'm having this problem too. Unfortunately, when I go to mt-config.cgi, it's a little tiny file and throttleseconds doesn't appear within it. Any ideas?
thanks

If you are using MT3.3 you have to add that line yourself, the only main thing in the original config file are the database options everything else you want or need in there you have to add yoursel.

Add:
ThrottleSeconds 45 (you can write your own choice of seconds there)
OneHourMaxPings

Save your config file and upload it with these new lines in there finished.

You're right, I'm running mt3.31. I did what you said. Then I resaved an existing post that I'm trying to internally trackback to, and the system returned this error msg:

Config directive without value at /home/bwvwithv/public_html/mt/mt331/mt-config.cgi line 26

Have any ideas? thanks so much

I was too soon in writing the earlier reply and forgot to correct what I wrote.



Remove the OneHourMaxPing from the config file and that error will disapear. It should work with the ThrottleSeconds line, adjust the time setting and try to see what your optional time in seconds are.

I did this and the activity log registered that the ping failed: HTTP error: 403 Throttled

You should just whitelist yourself. It's a bit of a hack, but I do it and it's only 1 line of code to add to make it work. I got sick of having this problem as well so wrote up an article to outline how to do it. Here you go! How to fix "403 Throttled" errors for trackback pings in movable type