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DDOS attack by CraftLandia.

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GreekCrackShot

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Man, I wish I could do more to help, I feel useless sitting here and watching as the staff works their tails off to find a solution. If it means any consolation, I did email like it was suggested and from 3 different email addresses to GoDaddy and Mojang.

Someone did make a good point about MCF taking down your thread, the Curse forums used to be pretty unstable just when it came to an increase in traffic to the MCF, so I'm sure even though they are a bit more stable since they migrated to Curse, they may be easily vulnerable to DDoS's. But that still doesn't make sense because it would be dumb of Craftlandia to DDoS MCF, because that would raise even more awareness in the minecraft community.

I'm really not very knowledgeable when it comes to these types of attacks, simply because I'm not a computer nut (Just enjoy some casual gaming), but just by using logic I can't see a good enough reason as to why craftlandia would try to DDoS MCF, that would create more problems on their end. So the above reason I stated can sort of be disproved. Also, this "Personal Disagreement" Danielle reasoning behind removing the thread confuses me.... what personal disagreement?

These guys are distributing illegal copies of the game... is it a personal disagreement for us to disagree with the fact they're breaking the law?

I'm just gonna sit at my desk scratching my head :confused:

EDIT: Wow, was that really locked too? wtf?
 
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And don't forget to send out those e-mails!
 
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I honestly doubt it. From the way this is all going they will just ignore it also. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if they chalk this up to a "personal feud" and ignore it like others want to, it is the problem of this world that no one wants to get involved except those affected. Now if MCF, Bukkit, or Curse got hit the shit would hit the fan but since they aren't they don't want to help the little guys fix/bring to light the issues.

Hopefully my view is way off base and things get jumped on but this is my opinion on here and how I've seen things work.
 
Bingy1218

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"We have no intention to be part of the shutting down of craftlandia. It is unfortunate that this is happening, but we will not be allowing Minecraft forums to be used to engage in this kind of behaviour"

As response to a pm with Danielle I suggest minecraft forums are not a good place for us to be doing this then :(
 
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Bingy1218 said:
"We have no intention to be part of the shutting down of craftlandia. It is unfortunate that this is happening, but we will not be allowing Minecraft forums to be used to engage in this kind of behaviour"

As response to a pm with Danielle I suggest minecraft forums are not a good place for us to be doing this then :(
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The idea was also given to go to Planet Minecraft, so I think Kainzo is heading there. We also have a thread on Spout:

http://forums.spout.org/threads/herocraft-dev-being-ddosd-by-spunkiiez-craftlandia-server.4562/
 
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Is there a way to take our hosted server that we all play on. Copy all of the information on the server. and start up a new server where we left off? with just a tweaked name mc.herocraftonlines.com or somthing. Is that a possibility or completly out of reach. because I feel the whole mc community is so in fear of being ddosed that knowone is willing to help us out. Maybe, just maybe its time to just play defencive instead of figuring out how to stop them.
 
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XxTxAxZxX said:
Is there a way to take our hosted server that we all play on. Copy all of the information on the server. and start up a new server where we left off? with just a tweaked name mc.herocraftonlines.com or somthing. Is that a possibility or completly out of reach. because I feel the whole mc community is so in fear of being ddosed that knowone is willing to help us out. Maybe, just maybe its time to just play defencive instead of figuring out how to stop them.
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I think that would work for about 1 houer, then Craftlandia finds out we just changed IP and starts DDOS'ing the new one instead.
 
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Here's the post going to Planet Minecraft to raise even more awareness.

First and foremost - Herocraft isn't going anywhere. We plan to stay here for a very long time.

I didn't want to bring this evidence or DDOS information forward because I thought they would get tired of it, as of 08/12/12 they have been DDOS'ing our users and our services for 5 days straight.

Apparently CraftLandia is known in Brazil for ddosing servers until they stop hosting a server because they want to be the #1 server in the world.
Herocraft Development has brought you great plugins (totaling over one MILLION DL's) below:
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/heroes/
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/vault/
http://dev.bukkit.org/server-mods/herochat/


For those who don't know, DDOS = massive stop service.
http://Herocraftonline.com has been target'd because we wouldnt push out Herochat 1.3 fast enough for this server. The user Spunkiie, aka the owner of http://CraftLandia.com.br has said he will not stop DDOS'ing Herocraft until we are less than a 10 person server. HIs motives have turned because we aren't "being quiet" about the DDOS and are posting in public minecraft communities about the tyranny.

I have brought this to the attention of the developers and the community of Bukkit and they have all been very caring about what has been going on. The response from the Bukkit Admins were that it wasn't their issue and that it didnt concern their community.

As of 08/10/12 - Evilseph (Mojang/Bukkit Lead), has removed all names / information that CraftLandia is behind this because "they dont want to be involved" so CraftLandia / Spunkiiez have resumed ddosing our services.
I am working as quickly as I can on a solution. This means we will be increasing costs by 5 to 10 times the normal rate.

If you use our plugins and are expecting an update for 1.3 - I don't like leaving you in the dark here. I want to let you know whats going on. Thank you for your patience in these times. I am quite unhappy by the outcome of this and will fight tooth and nail with every dollar Herocraft has to keep us up and thwart these injustices.


Below are quotes that the Bukkit team removed and had deleted because it was "offensive" to the server in question. They are a compilation of the harassment we have received in PM's, other emails and things that this server and person have done. They told us to take down this information or the DDOS's still not stop.
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/treat-plugin-devs-better.91128

Well, I thought it was something just childish, because we wouldn't 'jump' to one person's whiney attitude fast enough. This person [spunkiie, admin of CraftLandia] is now targetting our users and our main server (Herocraft).

The user in question admits to ddosing our services and laughs about it.
http://pastie.org/private/cpfu89abmjraug03uyjzya
Is the combined log of all that was said/done - the previous thread we created was set to private and locked.
More info of the user - IRC chat logs..
http://pastebin.com/2azysbST
http://pastie.org/4446456
Emails of him being "superior" over other wanna-be server owners/devs
http://pastie.org/private/rbivfj5zgs93kjgd452x3a
Pm of one of the "admins" inviting me to their team 6+ months ago
http://pastie.org/private/pz5yfnt1br4vbsfzl2joa
Random users offering help in any way to stop this tyrant.
http://pastie.org/private/3lenesags77hly1i63w
We are a non-profit organization and a non-profit development team. We don't have a lot of cash to fling around for anti-ddos protection and we can't develop anything if our build servers / test servers are offline.
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TAKE A STAND & EMAIL!:
The team at Herocraft has composed some email templates you can send. See below:
GoDaddy.com (Hosting pirated files): Email @ [email protected] -> http://pastie.org/private/hziqcc5ab63gay8rqgnova
Mojang.com (Illegally distributing Mojang code): Email [email protected] and [email protected] -> http://pastie.org/private/h4y8iuszqiwz0bvvp1byzq
gvt.com.br (his ISP): Email - [email protected] -> http://pastie.org/private/i7m4msk8woodsluy1sfpyg
Do not let this injustice stand, Take a stand and spread the word so we can legally have this tyrant taken down.


Reposted here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/xzf4m/herocraft_plugin_devs_being_ddosd_by_brazilian/
http://www.reddit.com/r/admincraft/comments/y01h1/herocraft_plugin_dev_being_ddosd_by_craftlandia/
http://forums.spout.org/threads/herocraft-dev-being-ddosd-by-spunkiiez-craftlandia-server.4562
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic...opment-ddosd-by-brazilian-craftlandia-server/
http://herocraftonline.com/main/threads/ddos-attack-by-craftlandia.22769/
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