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Vasco Posted at: 11:13 Oct21 2010 Post ID: 2917940
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Minecraft is currently under attack. A DDoS attack, apparently.

Notch said:DDoS stands for �??Distributed Denial of Service�?�. Denial of Service means you occupy certain resources for a long period of time, making other people not able to use them. A real world example would be running up to the cashier at a super market and paying in small coins, counting every single one really slowly, then finding out at the end you didn�??t have enough in the first place.

The �??Distributed�?� means it�??s done from a lot of places at the same time, so it�??s much harder to simply deny access to the clients that do that. Usually this is done via computers infected with trojans, so people participate in this without even knowing they�??re doing it.

As to why minecraft.net is being targeted, I�??m not sure.

While the guys hosting my server are looking into things, I�??ll get back to coding.

Read more from Notch himself: here

And Notch can't do anything about it. Some guys at 4chan claim to be the ones responsible, and they're doing it for the lack of updates. They say they'll keep the attack for a week, to see if Notch's attitude changes.

Ridiculous. Idiotic. Discuss.

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Forgoten_Scars Posted at: 11:44 Oct21 2010 Post ID: 2917945
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Still sick so my head is STILL in a fog. No idea what that all means even with the explanation. I'll look into it more later, then discuss once I know what in the world is going on.
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neptis Posted at: 16:04 Oct21 2010 Post ID: 2918039
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ffs this is anoing me i was getting on very well in the server i was on
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Vasco Posted at: 08:52 Oct22 2010 Post ID: 2918341
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Forgoten_Scars said:Still sick so my head is STILL in a fog. No idea what that all means even with the explanation. I'll look into it more later, then discuss once I know what in the world is going on.

Heh. I suppose I can make it even easier to understand. Basically, Minecraft was hacked. The site was down for over a day, and no one could play on servers or use custom skins.

Notch said:I�??ve also signed up for a DDoS protection service, and took the chance to upgrade the server hardware to a much more powerful beast. I haven�??t migrated things over to that server yet, but that�??s coming soon.

And with that, the website seems to be working again.

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Forgoten_Scars Posted at: 08:55 Oct22 2010 Post ID: 2918343
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Well you're right, that is idiotic. Good thing I only play on the weekends, though.
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neptis Posted at: 12:55 Oct22 2010 Post ID: 2918404
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lol well the server iplay on has disaperd ? i dont no whats happend to it but i was well nowen thair.

if enyone sees that the server absoulte zero is back in the server list could you tell me please
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Green_Fire Posted at: 21:43 Oct22 2010 Post ID: 2918608
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That's 4chan for ya.

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X__x Posted at: 07:14 Oct25 2010 Post ID: 2919549
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At least they're not going to be able to hinder the update right now. Technically, for me it's about 5 and a half days left until we get the update.

Forgot I had this tag.

I'm also torn between Red and Green from Super Effective.
People kept asking me for minecraft skins. I now tell them to go to my website to request them.
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