Getting peeks from random ip-adresses?

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Getting peeks from random ip-adresses? #251

Closed SnelleJaapie closed 5 months ago

SnelleJaapie commented 5 months ago

Since I got the plugin to work, I have been getting these random pings for my server every 5 minutes or so. The IP's are not random, every hour or so the same set of IP's is pinging my server/

What are those and why is this happening?

No I have not shared my IP on a forum or whatever, just set up a server for my friends and I. It's also too consistent to be peeked at by players.

AnnsAnns commented 5 months ago

It's actually quite simple, people have found out that Minecraft servers are really easy to find so people have started creating automatic pinging setups to find servers with no whitelist to grief (Or even to properly warn people about this) - That's just how the web works.

SnelleJaapie commented 5 months ago

@AnnsAnns Makes sense. Didn't think it would be that obvious haha. I didn't have a whitelist enabled yet but i'll be doing that shortly just in case. Thanks!