I remember listening to a podcast where Steve Gibson mentioned that he uses a DNS TXT record to publish the current version of SpinRite. That way the program ju

I remember listening to a podcast where Steve Gibson mentioned that he uses a DNS TXT record to publish the current version of SpinRite. That way the program just does a DNS look-up to see if there is a newer version available. Thought that was a clever trick. Saves a centralised server getting hit all the time (although you then miss out of usage information I guess.)