tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1721874624425478990.post-20335289141671626712008-07-16T18:07:00.004+01:002008-07-16T18:18:53.067+01:002008-07-16T18:18:53.067+01:00This is a <a href="http://forum.hosts-file.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=617&amp;hilit=&amp;sid=30ec5a7a3d84dc76737d93c42436fd06" target="_blank">message</a> from Steven Burn, author of hpHosts:<br /><br /><div class="quote">This is a notice to all HostsMan users, currently using hpHosts.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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).<br /><br />* 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.</div><br />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.<br /><br />Thanks.R. Loureirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12987880312765051851noreply@blogger.com