How do you code something like this? (without reimplementing everything!)
Live Minecraft server connections
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Re: Live Minecraft server connections
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whenever a Minecraft player connects to a Minecraft server, the server communicates with Mojang HQ to verify that the user is actually the person they're trying to connect as. This means that Mojang gets to log a bunch of "client with address X connected to server with address Y" records. It looks like they've used some geolocation API to guess at GPS coordinates for each address, and animated a little line connectin…
Does anyone know if these "connection records" are available somewhere? That would be a great source of information to study the Minecraft ecosystem...
I'm pretty sure you just need a court order and you can get them.
Seriously.. Where's the privacy? Are you asking if someone hands out a specific kind of traffic log for their users? So that you can check where that griefer from your last game lives?
Re: Live Minecraft server connections
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whenever a Minecraft player connects to a Minecraft server, the server communicates with Mojang HQ to verify that the user is actually the person they're trying to connect as. This means that Mojang gets to log a bunch of "client with address X connected to server with address Y" records. It looks like they've used some geolocation API to guess at GPS coordinates for each address, and animated a little line connectin…
Does anyone know if these "connection records" are available somewhere? That would be a great source of information to study the Minecraft ecosystem...
As darklajid says, there'd be privacy implications in the way of getting the whole logs.
If you ask mojang nicely, though, they might be able to offer the logs with the users anonymised to, say, a /24 subnet, or to just their geolocation results (seeing as those aren't exactly accurate enough to single out individuals).
Re: Live Minecraft server connections
#14Greetings professor Notch... would you like to play a game?
(sorry)
Re: Live Minecraft server connections
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone know if these "connection records" are available somewhere? That would be a great source of information to study the Minecraft ecosystem...
As darklajid says, there'd be privacy implications in the way of getting the whole logs. If you ask mojang nicely, though, they might be able to offer the logs with the users anonymised to, say, a /24 subnet, or to just their geolocation results (seeing as those aren't exactly accurate enough to single out individuals).
Yes, absolutely, I understand there are privacy implications. I am from academia so I might be somewhat naive about what companies are willing to provide, but even anonymized data (e.g., replace every distinct IP address by a random number, possibly keeping coarse/country-level geolocation) would already provide a wealth of information about user connection patterns.
Re: Live Minecraft server connections
#16"Data Hose Offline" :(
Re: Live Minecraft server connections
#17Suddenly, I feel like I'm playing DEFCON.
Re: Live Minecraft server connections
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whenever a Minecraft player connects to a Minecraft server, the server communicates with Mojang HQ to verify that the user is actually the person they're trying to connect as. This means that Mojang gets to log a bunch of "client with address X connected to server with address Y" records. It looks like they've used some geolocation API to guess at GPS coordinates for each address, and animated a little line connectin…
Does anyone know if these "connection records" are available somewhere? That would be a great source of information to study the Minecraft ecosystem...
On the submitted page, at the bottom it says:
Is There More Data?
Yes, we have some raw hardware data right now. When we get more we'll launder it and present it nicely for you.
...where 'raw hardware data' is a link to http://stats.minecraft.net/public/snoop.tar.gz
That might be worth looking at.