by Zancarius » Sun Aug 25, 2013 11:25 pm
Sure. I've seen a number of IPs including one that was in a range you used that appeared to be querying the server (i.e. what happens when it views the server list) but never connecting. My only conclusion then was that you and your compatriots were having some degree of trouble due to version differences. The server log doesn't provide much more information than that, so it's plausible that you were instead examining the server status to see if anyone was on. The reason I suspected it might've been a missed update because 1) a launcher update was required to get to 1.6.x and 2) since we don't update until Bukkit updates, I've seen similar things happen quite often in the past whenever someone attempted to connect and a version mismatch was precluding their client from doing so correctly.
That said, I'm surprised that you had some issues with Minecraft's launcher (although I do have a complaint: it's slow since it checks Mojang's packages on AWS for a number of things, and if you have 1.5 installed under a different profile it's even slower), but it's probably because %appdata%\roaming\.minecraft may have been littered with stuff. Sometimes extra copies of the LWJGL can cause issues, although it's probably also just the launcher being retarded. Hopefully newer versions of the launcher will smooth things out or at least reduce the launch time considerably...
Anyway, I'm glad to hear you go it working. Josh mentioned the other day I could have used Steam to contact you (which I didn't think about), but I'd rather just post updates here for the handful of people who use the server since most everyone who does checks the forums at least once every couple of weeks unless they're busy. Plus I'm lazy.
I may eventually be adding some other things to the site to indicate server status more automatically, probably by writing a service wrapper for the Minecraft process, which would help alleviate some other issues as well. We'll see though. Once I push the new forum layout shameless onto everyone, there'll probably also be a few other goodies besides just Minecraft-related stuff.
I gave that lich a phylactery shard. Liches love phylactery shards.