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Minecraft.net is down because of what I believe is an attack
- jcsalterego 16y agoWell, also: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1360555436/on-second-thought-perhaps-its-not-an-attack http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1360555436/on-second-thought-pe...
- citricsquid 16y agoI laughed that he included my name as someone who helped him, I did nothing.
- wlievens 16y agoCould you elaborate on that? Is it someone else with the same nick?
- sh1mmer 16y agoBig enough attacks commonly take down the hosting provider. Especially if they are not geared up for such things.
- silvertab 16y agoSo it was not an attack, but now it is one? ( see: http://twitter.com/notch/status/27984231275 http://twitter.com/notch/status/27984231275 That was posted 30 minutes ago)
- citricsquid 16y agoNo, they're both attacks. The original we thought was an attack, then we thought it wasn't, then we found out it was.
- silvertab 16y agoThanks for clarifying...I wasn't sure if it was 2 attacks, which makes more sense, or just a random downtime and THEN a real attack...
- chegra 16y agoBack up http://twitter.com/notch/statuses/27965813137 http://twitter.com/notch/statuses/27965813137
- cookiecaper 16y agoWere people able to play during this outage? My understanding is that you must log in to notch's servers to play and I find that really asinine. I am not exactly clear on the point, however, because he claims that there is "no DRM", but obviously requiring approval from his server is a pretty draconian form of DRM in effect, whether he is actively deploying DRM-like functionality at the time or not.
- Palomides 16y agoyou can play single-player and on non-authenticated multi-player servers without the central authentication server being up.
- cookiecaper 16y agoWhat's the difference between an authenticated and non-authenticated multiplayer server?
- count 16y agoOne requires authentication from Notches sever.
- cookiecaper 16y agoUh, right, but why would you run an authenticated v. non-authenticated server? Just to prevent pirates from connecting to your server because you support notch? Is it like Battlefield or those other games with ranked v. non-ranked where ranked offers persistent stats? I am curious if there is any benefit in running an authenticated server other than moral support for appearing on notch's list of approved players.
- invisible 16y agoFrom what I understand the non-paid users have a much higher probability to be "griefers" or those that destroy buildings/piss off other users.
- ropable 16y agoThe comments thread on that announcement is really quite funny: "Hit them with some Chicken Freestyle".
- Empedocles99 16y agoI'm wondering if the publicity of personal fortunes being made inspired a ransomed attack?