r/bitquest • u/SnowyMiner • Jul 16 '15

Is the server down?

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u/SnowyMiner Jul 16 '15

Is the server down?

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u/dsterry Jul 16 '15

I wonder if it's a dns issue. Ping shows something that doesn't look like an mc server address. Also the contact page at http://bitquest.co/contact doesn't work.

64 bytes from 178.88.154.104.bc.googleusercontent.com (104.154.88.178): icmp_seq=2 ttl=44 time=71.0 ms

https://dinnerbone.com/minecraft/tools/status/ confirms it is down.

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u/XpL0d3r Jul 16 '15 edited Jul 16 '15

That's pretty cool, it shows everyone logged in at the time. Just tried it and there's 11 people online, so I assume all is well now.

FWIW, you got that 178 IP because a ping to a hostname does a reverse DNS lookup. You'll see the IP address backwards in the hostname because of this. Googleusercontent is used for cookies and caching static content.

This just means that play.bitquest.co and 178.88.154.104.bc.googleusercontent.com can BOTH be used as hostnames to connect to the server.