METAR Excessive Usage

[Kieran Hardern]

If you utilise the VATSIM METAR system on your website, please have a read of my post regarding the options available to you:

 

http://forums.vatsim.net/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=65858

 

Specifically please consider how many concurrent requests you are making and how often.

 

The IPs below have been flagged as having make grossly excessive numbers of requests to the METAR system. By this I'm talking in the tens of thousands of requests per day. Considering you can download the entire METAR file in a single request and that METARs don't update more than about once every 30 mins, you can have all the METARs available to you with 48 requests per day.

 

The record was hit last night, I won't single out the IP, but it was 99,904 individual requests in 24 hours!

 

If your ARE in the list

 

If your IP is below you need to re-think how you are calling the METARs and use the ability to obtain more than one at once, if you aren't already. See my post for more details. From this time next week, I will start blocking IPs on this list that continue with "excessive" usage. Feel free to get in touch with me if you recognise your IP and would like me to hold off banning it while you make the appropriate changes.

 

If you AREN'T in the list

 

Please have a look anyway to make sure you are following the guidance in my post. Those I've listed below are requesting in the tens of thousands and therefore I've flagged as "grossly excessive". There are still many many sites making an excessive number of requests that I haven't listed below.

 

 

Above all, please keep in mind that it's not just you using the system and that we want to keep it available to everyone. Thanks for your cooperation

 

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101.165.123.94

109.152.30.23

119.181.196.253

121.214.207.15

128.68.103.32

134.117.250.14

151.224.165.177

173.168.164.239

179.197.148.51

179.236.68.51

186.244.65.72

186.59.153.154

186.59.219.242

186.66.71.95

186.90.26.249

190.213.227.80

193.80.83.17

193.83.62.198

2.219.31.11

202.156.9.10

212.83.134.11

212.83.134.8

217.122.54.179

24.177.217.208

24.41.167.220

31.209.47.229

41.17.242.78

46.117.61.240

46.39.36.138

5.65.94.212

58.6.156.2

62.129.239.116

67.3.216.160

69.80.37.100

71.188.84.71

71.92.161.212

73.178.115.165

76.11.67.0

76.69.139.128

77.57.18.47

78.14.9.127

81.251.202.245

81.39.251.89

82.55.215.63

83.162.242.118

84.113.101.240

84.115.244.4

84.146.230.75

84.146.234.100

86.134.154.127

86.146.43.65

86.169.95.252

86.201.88.226

88.181.163.7

88.65.181.169

89.144.217.195

89.151.134.92

89.178.219.172

89.216.236.150

89.227.116.51

89.227.222.125

90.217.68.196

90.34.91.86

92.104.43.160

92.133.69.109

92.237.208.32

92.74.241.113

92.74.243.178

93.93.112.27

94.159.246.194

94.185.176.218

94.216.166.63

94.254.119.209

94.38.138.98

94.38.139.1

95.26.131.229