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VATSIM Datafeed Blacklist

Steven Brown

By Steven Brown,
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Steven Brown

Steven Brown

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Can you become blacklisted from the VATSIM Data Feed?

 

 

I'm just wondering as currently VATPAC processes the VATSIM Data every 5 minutes and wondering if we make this lower (say 2 minutes), if the servers start to second guess us if we try and grab the data too frequently

 

 

Steve

Steven Brown

Director of Events & Communications, VATPAC - VATSIM Australia-Pacific

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Colin Schoen

Colin Schoen

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Rotate between the feeds.

Colin Schoen

VATSIM Senior Network Supervisor

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Luca Benelli

Luca Benelli

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and no, as long as you don't download more often than every 2 minutes no.

Luca Benelli - C3 - P2

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Daniel Hawton

Daniel Hawton

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Keep in mind this is tracked by IP address, so if there are several sites on the same IP that all query the data feeds... you run the risk of that being flagged.

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Luca Benelli

Luca Benelli

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True

Luca Benelli - C3 - P2

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Miguel Frias

Miguel Frias

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If there are several sites running a data query then have them all share one unique "local feed".

 

What I do is:

 

Download the data feed in random, to a centralized location. This will distribute the download of data amongst all data servers. The centralized location is available to all sites within the server. Then, each site just needs to load that local file (as many times as it wants).

 

This way you download the data remotely every two/five minutes and all sites share it locally.

Miguel Frias

Senior Instructor (I3) & Certified Pilot (P4), ZLA I-11 graduate

Portugal vACC Training Director (ACCPT2), VATEUD Operations Director (VATEUD8)

Portugal vACC, VATEUD, VATSIM

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