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A Census of Minecraft Servers #8

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A Census of Minecraft Servers

Did you know that one person can scan the entire (IPv4) Internet? I searched all four billion IP addresses for running Minecraft servers. Here are the results.

https://blog.bithole.dev/mcmap.html

SansPapyrus683 commented 2 years ago

pog

chfour commented 2 years ago

hey, cool article, just letting you know that you didn't have to write your own parser - there's a python module called mcstatus that can query minecraft servers, both java edition and bedrock

Mee42 commented 2 years ago

if you're okay with waiting ten weeks for results, sure

ultlang commented 2 years ago

pretty sure that "whatever this is" is russian encoded in KOI-7

jklapacz commented 2 years ago

The “whatever this is” is a GDS - a system used by airlines to coordinate information globally. It’s quite ancient by tech standards but used at a scale you wouldn’t imagine

2kwatts commented 2 years ago

Wow, great job!

anime-marketing commented 2 years ago

Come check out bonkcraft, would love some tips on how to improve it.

RhinoCodes commented 2 years ago

Woah! I've tried something like this before, I didn't get as far as this though. Only scanned 2 million 1.1.1.1/0 ip addresses i think (took like 2 hours)

notwedtm commented 2 years ago

Oh wow, this takes me back. When we were building the underlying auth system for minecraftforum.net we initially toyed with the idea of using server stats to display your server in realtime on the forums and wiki.

When we eventually launched mcserverlist.net to follow, we switched to a poll method and ended up building infra to check every Minecraft server's status each minute.

So glad to see this kind of exploration is still going on!