diff --git a/hbd b/hbd
index 349abf1..6efc291 100755
--- a/hbd
+++ b/hbd
@@ -165,13 +165,15 @@ def pushover(msg):
 	if not SEND_PUSHOVER:
 		return
 	conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection("api.pushover.net:443")
-	conn.request("POST", "/1/messages.json",
-		urllib.urlencode({
-		"token": "ac7NLX2rPjXFareeDgLpXNoDf4iFmf",
-		"user": "uDhH33UjQQDYtNzJb1ThRiWb9ingGK",
-		"message": msg,
-	}), { "Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" })
-	conn.getresponse()
+	try:
+		conn.request("POST", "/1/messages.json",
+			urllib.urlencode({
+			"token": "ac7NLX2rPjXFareeDgLpXNoDf4iFmf",
+			"user": "uDhH33UjQQDYtNzJb1ThRiWb9ingGK",
+			"message": msg, }), { "Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" })
+		conn.getresponse()
+	except:
+		pass
 
 
 # nsupdate:  set the DNS A record for a fqdn