The Vatican started its own Minecraft server and it’s already been DDoS’d
Faith in humanity lost.
Father Robert Ballecer, a Catholic priest and former tech blogger has set up an official Minecraft server for the Vatican.
Ballecer’s intent behind the server is to create a place for “gamers who want a little less ‘toxic’ and a bit more community.”
Ok… I want to spin up a few servers in the Vatican for gamers who want a little less “toxic” and a bit more community.What should be my first server?
Unsurprisingly, within 24 hours of the server launching it was immediately DDoS’d.
I’m looking at the logs of the Minecraft test server and it looks like there is a handful of people who are constantly connecting and disconnecting to fill the player slots and kill the server.Interesting…
However, the tech-savvy Ballacer clearly anticipated the attacks, and revealed that the server was just a test server setup to catch potentially troublesome User IDs and IPs.
The real production server will launch tomorrow.
Truth-time:The MC server we’ve been running was the test server. It allowed us to build up a ban-list of 100 or so User IDs and IPs and see where we would be attacked.Tomorrow we launch the production server. ????It will still get attacked, but now we’ve got a head start.pic.twitter.com/XvuLkvB0MA
When the server goes live, you’ll be able to visit it by pointing your client to minecraft.digitaljesuit.com.
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