Possible to see when someone else's server was last online?
I'm just trying to figure out how long a small-ish smp server has been offline so any help would be appreciated!
90 Replies
Thanks for asking your question!
Make sure to provide as much helpful information as possible such as logs/what you tried and what your exact issue is
Make sure to mark solved when issue is solved!!!
/close
!close
!solved
!answered
Requested by kaiden_lcfc#0
i dont really want to sit here clicking a button, i have better things to do with my life, plus that would only tell me when the server is back and not when it was last closed
i was hoping there may be a tool or something i could use
the server is just like down for maintenance or anything, the owner purposely shuts it down so no one will play without him but we have a suspicion that he sometimes plays without us
Setup a monitoring service
that'll automatically check if it's pingable
Which one offers mc specific
No clue that's a Google question, not harrison question :risitaslaugh:
mcsrvstat.us has an API, set up something to check the IP every x minutes
Would they see that in the console if the server is online? I would assume it won't show up in chat even if he's an OP
I should probably stop asking questions and just read about it myself 🤣
No they wouldn't see anything
It would just monitor when the server is online/offline
looks confusing but i will give it a go 😅
👍🏻
i will be honest, i tried the one you sent but got bored of reading cus i was struggling to understand it so i just went straight into trying it with my own server first - and with 0 shock it didnt work (i didnt know what i was doing lol)
instead i decided to use my python knowledge and some help from chatgpt to make some code that i can customise how often it pings, can request who is online, and also prints the time of the check 😄
the only problem is i have to have it running and have visual studio open the whole time, but apart from that, my question has been solved! thanks for all the help guys!
well... solved to the best of my ability as i cant actually see when it was currently last online but oh well
ahh nevermind... my code seems to be having issues
works on my own server, but after trying the ip of the smp the dns lookup fails and im not sure if it is because of the ip being "example.com" rather than numbers
i will try again when the server is next online i suppose and see if anything changes
is there a way to get like an actual ip for the server rather than "example.com"?
If the dns lookup fails then you're kind of screwed. There's no way for the computer (or you) to get the ip. Ping the server owners. Having a broken dns record is a MAJOR issue.
Why is that a big issue?
Because no one can connect to the server if the dns record is broken and they don't give the ip
Ah right, welli have never used the server hosting he is using because I locally host so next time I am on the server so I know it is up I will first of all see if its the same address or different and then I will run my code again to see
Sounds good 👍
Do you join through a domain?
If so, what's the domain
Tbh I'm not too sure about all of domain and dns stuff, but the server address is some letters followed by the hosters followed by .com
That'a a domain
I thought so
Can you send the domain please? (Whatever you put in as the server IP in the multiplayer menu)
I googled a little and it seems like minecraft does a domain search or something to get the ip but i really don't understand it
If you want me to explain the networking I can, but idk if you're interested, and besides it's irrelevant
send the domain here, I'll get the IP from you
I was thinking the same thing
😭 it's the thing i was trying to get from the start
Is it possible to do it myself, I don't think the owner would be happy with me leaking the address
Just do a dns lookup with the address
Just google for a dns lookup tool. It shouldn't be too hard
IP-API.com - Geolocation API
Free IP Geolocation API - lookup any IP address
this typically works too
I tried a dns lookup earlier and it came back with couldn't be found or something, I suppose I can try a few more just in case but if it doesn't work then I suspect it is because the server is off or the ip changes which I haven't heard of before
But like I said I haven't used this host
Wouldn't that just give the location not the domain
It gives the IP
Ok the linked one just says fail and invalid query
unless it's proxied
I can try some others
can you join the server ?
No its currently offline
That's why I'm doing all of this, to figure out when it is online
i feel like the owner deletes the record when it's "offline"
Sounds like it's offline because the dns record is pointing to the wrong ip
Imagine doing that 😂
If the machine is off it should still display the record
^
which is why i feel like he does that
Which means that it probably won't work whether or not the server is online
But that seems so dumb with how long dns propagation takes
Just use a maintenance plugin to stop people from joining
I don't know if he knows enough about hosting to do that, hence paying £4 a month for a company to host and set up for him, but I could also be wrong
only £4/mo for hosting
crazy cheap
^
Yeah it's only a vanilla server cus not many mods for 1.21 yet, along with only 5 people
I think it might be 2gb or something
Wow
damn and that can run ???
Vanilla 1.21 with no mods or plugins on 2gb
im very surprised
!!
Me too
I would either go with paper or fabric
Few stutters here and there but we are not too bothered
Yes but why would you settle for less when you could have something that performs way better without any changes to gameplay
I don't know of any benefits to using the vanilla server jar currently
Except in development
I could be wrong but it shows the V on the server list that means vanilla so I would assume paper wouldn't do that
It would
Paper accepts vanilla clients
I'm checking the hosting website now, the first thing it asks you to do is type the address you want then shows u plans
what host?
Serverminer
If this is a vanilla server why do you use forge
ah never heard of that
Nvm unrelated question
Client side mods 😄
Minimap and stuff
Fabric is better at that...
I use both fabric and forge but imo fabric is better for performance and client side stuff
But I digress
Does this mean you can ping the server now?
No no, that's just something I saw on saturday
Oh ok
If you can't get the ip then I don't think you can do anything
Unless you're an admin who helps run the server
Nah I'm not
I guess I just have to wait till the next time we all go on
yeah
Many things I need to check, see if the ip is different, which doubt, see if I can dns lookup and see if my code works
As a last try you could try to look up the address on minecraft server websites
I actually had namemc profile my server without my knowledge
Could not get the server status...
I'm sure I used that website or a similar one earlier and I think it worked, I could just be misremembering though
yeah they probably deleted the dns record 😂
I don't even know how to do that myself, unless the server hoster has a special tool to do that easily
I don't see why they would do it though?
Nor do we
I also get a weird message when I try to join the server whilst it's offline too, I can't remember what it said though and can't check rn cus it's nearly 1 30am and I'm in bed
If I were you I would go to bed
This is not going to change overnight unless the server owner really gets the server going again
^^ 😂
he probably joins with direct ip
Do you mean direct address in the multiplayer screen, or an ip address not linked to a domain?
an ip not linked to domain
He said earlier that the address ends with .com
https://discord.com/channels/348681414260293634/1254480823063937024/1254586818230222878
It's a domain
Yes, but I'm saying if the owner deletes the domain
He probably joins direct IP
Yes, the owner must join with ip.
ok when trying to join the server whilst i assume its offline, i get failed to connect to the server - unknown host
and the logs say they same error for pinging
Yeah invalid DNS then
so not much i can do about it until i am back on the server right?
Yes
ok thanks guys, i will update you when im back on the server