Notice To Hostsman Users (abelhadigital)

Title: Notice To Hostsman Users

rloureiro - July 16, 2008 05:01 PM (GMT)

This is a message from Steven Burn, author of hpHosts:

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This is a notice to all HostsMan users, currently using hpHosts.

Because I am seeing hundreds of requests per second coming in from HostsMan users*, I must request you please set HostsMan to check a maximum of TWICE PER DAY, and not every other second, as is the case now.

Whilst I do not want to ban the HostsMan user agent, the servers cannot handle the amount of traffic they are generating (the HM traffic currently accounts for 60% of the traffic coming into the network).

* the traffic I am seeing is only from a small sub-set of HM users, but amounts to a mini dDos due to the frequency in which they are doing it.

I hope that the users that somehow have set HostsMan to check for updates for more than twice a day follow Steven's request, otherwise, there won't be hpHosts for HostsMan users.

Thanks.

rloureiro - October 28, 2008 12:00 PM (GMT)

Today, I found out that when running HostsMan 3.2 under limited accounts or when no new updates are available, the Auto-Update will check for updates every 60 seconds.

I new version with this problem fixed is now available here.

I've already informed Steven about this issue and apologized to him for this mistake and also for taking so long to find it. I also want to apologize to everyone that was somehow affected by my mistake.

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