Anti-VPN Rollout

Alex my man, I can still use my vpns perfectly fine. I'd like to know if this would be considered breaking the rules or not cause its not in the rulebooks. If you or a staff could get back to me with an answer that'd be great, also whenever I use a vpn now I get 26 ms and without one I get 50. I used to get 26 regardless, possibly the vpn blocker causing an issue not sure.

 

As a goal with Mineplex, is to make sure we block many different VPN's. As some of them are paid, they have IP's that we really can't see. Most free VPN's can easily be blocked as their proxy system/IP is different (Each VPN is different.). Our goal is to block all VPN's, which take time. They'll be improving vpn blocking hopefully soon.

 

I love you

 

Thank you for the update Alex! It is awesome to see how much everyone on the staff team cares! Have a good one man! <3 :)

 

While I am definitely interested to see how this will work out in the future for Mineplex, my one question is why now? Wasn't this suggested a long time ago, why now is it implemented? What happened to all the arguments against a VPN blocker?

(Privacy, It's the player's rights, etc.)

Eg:

 

This is a really awesome update that has come out, and this is a massive walk forward (once again) in terms of Mineplex's progress. I know I have said this before, and it's going to sound like false hope but I honestly am amazed on how far this server has come. When I joined in Winter 2018, I saw this server at it's worst decline, but over the months there have been smaller triumphs that lead to larger triumphs. There is more to come for this server certainly, and I am really pleased with where it has come. Thank you @AlexTheCoder for this super over-requested update that has finally been brought as a reality :D​

 

Yeah, this is great work. Nice job AlexTheCoder. It would stop botted accounts that spam chat and run wild around the server. Once again man, great job.

 

This is one of the updates I've been waiting for! It's the genuine proof that Mineplex's progress is increasing a lot and I'm glad of all these changes. I can't wait to see what future brings to Mineplex in terms of updates.

I am sure this update will help a lot when it comes to avoid users whose intentions is to loophole our rules. I am also sure it will have a great impact on Mineplex and will help the server to be kept as a safe environment for our players! c:

 

The problem with it being on the old site, was that it was hosted on Enjin. It was under their control, so they didn't have the capabilities to have anti VPN. It's their choice on what to do. I do agree with the work they put on the website and server as well.

 

Totally agree. I'm very happy that they could make the switch and actually host it on its own platforms and servers, not under Enjin's ownership.

 

I'm really happy to see this take effect. It's surely gonna help the server out a lot and make our jobs here a little easier. Well done executing this.

 

I believe it's awesome that this has been rolled out to the community. I don't believe this will stop hackers by getting around it by much, but it is quite a step forward!

 

@AlexTheCoder Out of curiosity, how does it detect the VPN? There's no way you guys put every single VPN's IP into a database, that would take too long, right?

 

All IP addresses have publicly available data associated with them my dude. Given the fact that purchasing 1 IP address is like going to costco and asking for 1 toothpick, I'm assuming that they have a combination of a subnet blacklist and also checks relating to the geolocation/owner of the IP block.

Remember that a singular IPv4 address is only 4 bytes anyways, and most blocks can be represented with a subnet mask anyways (e.g. 192.168.0.0/24 would represent 192.168.0.0-192.168.0.255)