Hey everyone, At the time of writing, we have shut down all Minetime servers (and set the lobby to kick everyone with "We'll be right back"). I know a lot of you have questions about what happened, so I will do my best to answer them. Basically, what happened is our backend server IPs were griefed How come some servers were griefed? Our backend servers run in offline mode (Our reverse proxy, the "server" you connect to on minetime.com handles authentication). Since some people had access to our backend IP, they were able to connect directly to the servers as the owner, bypassing authentication entirely What will happen to all of our builds and our worlds? Nothing! We keep regular backups, so you won't notice any missing work How long until the servers will be back up? We're working on resolving the issues and receiving new IPs. Even if we fix the issue with authentication, people could still DDoS the servers (since they have our backends) which would cause downtime. Once we receive new IPs, this should be fixed. As of this time, our ETA to being back up is a few hours If you have any additional questions, please feel free to ask. We will answer them as fast as we can. However, keep in mind - we are also working on getting the servers back up for you to enjoy as soon as possible
Because the "hackers" (I wouldn't even call them that, what they did required no hacking skills) had access to our backend IPs, they were able to connect directly to our servers as the owners, without them being validated by Mojang. Basically, that means that they could log in as any user and the server would not stop them.
1. You said "As of this time, our ETA to being back up is a few hours", what does that mean? For example: 5-8 PM 1. Also, I have experiencing a lot of lag, why is that? Thanks!!! --- Scott5252 --- [Premium] Rank
We're still investigating as to how they got the backend IPs. A possible method would be just to IPscan. Our backends use SecuredServers and it would be trivial to run a scan of all the IPs SecuredServers owns.
This sucks, I love Minetime and I can say all of you do aswell I dont understand the point of breaking a server that doesnt belong to you, It pisses me off people do this, Anyway I am standing by for further updates thanks for making this server possible!
Well those people are idiots, as the backend IPs are available for free on HackForums. In any case, we're getting new IPs in a few hours, so that would have been $25 wasted Furthermore, all of the servers are currently shut down (to prevent hackers) so knowing our backend IPs right now is pretty useless Yeah I don't understand why some people get a kick out of breaking something. Glad to see you like the server, we're happy to have dedicated and loyal players like you!
Yeah I am [Premium] on PvpFest and a hard working shop on Sky Block I dont log on much of the others servers but I always have the option to thanks for keeping on the forums and answerign all our questions
No problem! We're trying to be as transparent as possible throughout this process. Thanks We really enjoy seeing others enjoy the epic world that is Minetime That will be step two. Our players are our number 1 priority, and so getting the server back up for our players is our number one priority