Heroic Game Launcher triggering rating limiting on my DNS server about heroicgameslauncher HOT 5 CLOSED

Hey! Happy to test it out, will try and get to it this weekend.

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Does this happen only when you go through game pages while the library is being refreshed?

Many requests to gamesdb during the library refresh are to be expected, though they should re-use the HTTP connection, so there shouldn't be any additional DNS queries. Believe it or not this is how GOG designed that API.

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Does this happen only when you go through game pages while the library is being refreshed?

I feel like this has happened occasionally when I just boot the app and have zero user input but it seems to more reliably happen when I click a game after boot.

For reference I have 400 games in my GOG library so it's rather large. I am not sure if each game gets it on HTTP request response cycle and that if the number of calls is unbounded based on the library size / other factors.

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I have since double my flood protection limit to 2,000 requests over 60 seconds and this still happens. It's pretty crazy even with the default of 1,000, I've never seen any program on Windows, MacOS or Linux trigger for the 6 or so years I've run a pihole on my local network.

I'd be curious to see if this effects other folks as well or it's something local to my setup.

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@JamesMcMahon could you try the build from Pull request linked above? I think this should fix DNS flooding problem. Thanks for bringing this to our attention, somehow for the time we had this method of importing games no one really noticed the problem

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