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A Census of Minecraft Servers

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Searching four billion IP addresses for friends to play with

A Census of Minecraft Servers Was your Minecraft server recently joined by someone named "masscan"? It's not me. Read more about it here . If you've ever read any of my other blogposts, you'll know that I often lament the fact that much of the Internet still runs on IPv4. Still, IPv6's sluggish rollout has some benefits; namely, because almost 100% of the Internet supports IPv4, I can do something I've always been curious about: scan the entire public Internet for Minecraft servers. That can't possibly be possible! , you might say. Well, it's actually not as Herculean a task as it seems. IPv4

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