e164.arpa fedi instance, Minecraft Server Handbook, Matscan, serverside emotes, Polymer client-side mods, Days since last Rust Minecraft server, Minecraft on Kubernetes.

we’ve seen fedi instances on ip6.arpa

we’ve seen them on in-addr.arpa

how about one on the mapped phone number domain of St. Helena (+290)? 0.9.2.e164.arpa

yes. it’s mine now.

This URL is cursed, I assume I’m ontop of networking know-how until I run across this stuff.

The e164.arpa domain, is part of the telephone number mapping system.

Telephone number mapping is a system of unifying the international telephone number system of the public switched telephone network with the Internet addressing and identification name spaces. Internationally, telephone numbers are systematically organized by the E.164 standard, while the Internet uses the Domain Name System (DNS) for linking domain names to IP addresses and other resource information.

Woah.

There’s an entire listing of all these .arpa domains.

I dare say this is a unique, truly extensive book (415,000 characters) in which you should find almost everything you need.

This book is for everyone. It serves as a knowledge base for anyone who knows nothing about Minecraft servers, as well as for those who are interested and want to learn more about how they work in more depth.

I’ve been playing Minecraft for a while, and for most of that time, have been running servers.

Honestly this was the start of learning system administration skills / the terminal / configuring a soup of .yml into something fun.

caukub’s handbook seems to be a wealth of knowledge.

For someone like myself, I skip past getting started, but even the ‘platforms’ page is a really nice summary of all the forks and options and such running serverside software with plugins / mods / etc.

caukub didn’t author this graph, but I’ve never seen it before:

There’s sections on commonly used plugins as well, like web based maps with Dynmap.

matscan is a Minecraft bot that joins potentially vulnerable Minecraft servers and sends a message in chat to inform the admins.

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How did you find my server?

I scan the internet for Minecraft servers, basically sending a packet to every IP address and seeing which ones respond (it’s a little more complex than this).

Good man Mat, I’ve had a server griefed before by what I think might have been the infamous Fifth Column group, nice to see someone is scanning the ipv4 space for servers and not logging them into a Discord server for folks to join and blow them up.

There’s a great SalC1 video on a Mojang-Owned server being found and griefed, which makes me feel less dumb.

Server-side player gestures using a resourcepack.

No client-side mods required!

The sort of things server-side Minecraft plugins can do these days boggles the mind.

This is a patch for CC: Tweaked (which by itself is fork/continuation of original ComputerCraft), that modifies it allowing nearly all functionality of regular version to work purely server side (Vanilla client can join servers using it and have all functionality!).

So… yeah, my last point about boggling the mind stands.

Polymer is a “a library for creating server side content, that work for player’s without mods or (required) resource packs!”, made by Patbox.

There’s an entire suite of bespoke mods by Pat, but also ports of Fabric mods using his framework, including the mentioned computer craft port.

It has been {x} days since the last release of a Minecraft server software written in Rust.

I too, one day, would like to contribute to the ever growing list of Minecraft protocol implementations, maybe in Rust, maybe not.

A Kubernetes operator for managing complex and dynamic Minecraft infrastructures, including game servers and proxies.

Of course someone has cooked up Minecraft server infra for k8s.

The name being Shulker is hilarious.