Okay, ya got me. What's "hammering" in this context?
I mean, I know about using a hammer, so clearly this is something else.
Umm… you “hammer” a nail don’t you? Never heard a guy ask another guy if he nailed his date last night?
It got me as well. You learn something every day.
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Here’s the definition as it pertains to me from Urban Dictionary.
hammering
The act of trying repeatedly to connect to an unavailable FTP server with little or no time between connection attempts. It can be compared to repeatedly hitting the “redial” button on a telephone when dialing a phone number that is busy until the other phone is no longer busy
Most FTP sites have policies against hammering and require FTP clients to set retry times at specific intervals, commonly at least 120 seconds between each attempt to connect. Most FTP sites can also monitor for devices that hammer, and once detected the server will ban access to the offending IP address either permanently or for a limited amount of time.
What I did wrong.
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I missed it before I posted… but I inadvertently put the address from my “news notification source” and the address from the source they sourced for the story. It created the potential for which I was rightfully admonished.
Now we know.