In recent post, I made a patch for configurable ping.module. Anyway, some ping servers don"t accept simple ping, instead they preferred extendedPing. For example, blo.gs.

diff -u ping.module ping.module
--- ping.module.orig      2005-12-31 21:18:22.000000000 +0700
+++ ping.module    2006-01-27 15:00:35.000000000 +0700
@@ -44,6 +44,32 @@
 }
 
 /**
+ * Implemetaion of hook_settings
+ */
+function ping_settings() {
+  $form["ping"] = array(
+    "#type" => "fieldset",
+    "#title" => t("Ping settings"),
+    "#collapsible" => TRUE,
+  );
+  $form["ping"]["ping_pinger_list"] = array(
+    "#type" => "textarea",
+    "#title" => t("URLs to ping"),
+    "#default_value" => variable_get("ping_pinger_list", "http://rpc.pingomatic.com"),
+    "#width" => 40,
+    "#height" => 10,
+  );
+  $form["ping"]["ping_extended_pinger_list"] = array(
+    "#type" => "textarea",
+    "#title" => t("URLs to extended ping"),
+    "#default_value" => variable_get("ping_extended_pinger_list", ""),
+    "#width" => 40,
+    "#height" => 10,
+  );
+  return $form;
+}
+
+/**
  * Call hook_ping() in all modules to notify remote sites that there is
  * new content at this one.
  */
@@ -58,11 +84,32 @@
  */
 function ping_ping($name = "", $url = "") {
 
-  $result = xmlrpc("http://rpc.pingomatic.com", "weblogUpdates.ping", $name, $url);
+  $pingers = explode("\n", variable_get("ping_pinger_list", "http://rpc.pingomatic.com"));
+  foreach ($pingers as $pinger) {
+    $pinger = trim($pinger);
+    if (empty($pinger)) {
+      continue;
+    }
+    $result = xmlrpc($pinger, "weblogUpdates.ping", $name, $url);
+
+    if ($result === FALSE) {
+      watchdog("directory ping", t("Failed to notify %pinger (site). %message", array("%pinger" => $pinger, "%message" => xmlrpc_error_msg())), WATCHDOG_WARNING);
+    }
+  }
 
-  if ($result === FALSE) {
-    watchdog("directory ping", t("Failed to notify pingomatic.com (site)."), WATCHDOG_WARNING);
+  $pingers = explode("\n", variable_get("ping_extended_pinger_list", ""));
+  foreach ($pingers as $pinger) {
+    $pinger = trim($pinger);
+    if (empty($pinger)) {
+      continue;
+    }
+    $result = xmlrpc($pinger, "weblogUpdates.extendedPing", $name, $url, "", "$url/rss.xml");
+
+    if ($result === FALSE) {
+      watchdog("directory ping", t("Failed to notify %pinger (site). %message", array("%pinger" => $pinger, "%message" => xmlrpc_error_msg())), WATCHDOG_WARNING);
+    }
   }
 }
 
 
+?>

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