AxolotlMuseum

The auto-IP bot

After a power cut changed the server's IP, prop wrote a Python and Discord bot to start the server and post the new IP.

Event Nyx S2 28 May 2021

On 28 May 2021 nYx explained why nobody could get in: “There was one powercut at night so ip changed ig.” 1 prop said he was working on “a python program and a batch file” to start the server and update the IP automatically. 2 All nYx had to do was run the sent run.bat. 3 He sent a screenshot of his server folder so it could be installed. 4 Background: The laptop server and the ever-changing IP.

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Wiring up the auto-IP bot Wiring up the auto-IP bot

Primary sources

  1. nYx · 28 May 2021 · #asmp-s1-general There was one powercut at night so ip changed ig
  2. prop · 28 May 2021 · #asmp-s1-general @nYx currently working on a python program and a batch file you can run for making the server turn on and update ip automatically
  3. prop · 28 May 2021 · #asmp-s1-general all you have to do is run the run.bat which i send
  4. nYx · 28 May 2021 · #asmp-s1-general (a picture)

Connected

Person prop Co-founder of the Discord and the server's manager from 2023, prop organises the events, films the videos and writes the chronicle of... Person nYx Necro, the original server host, who ran the first seasons off his laptop and later ruled Japan, planned trains and built Car Mountain Castle. Person V3nnkat A friend of prop and Fili who joined the Mekanism server in May 2021, built an iron farm within hours and dug an enormous mineshaft. Curiosity · other The laptop server and the ever-changing IP Necro hosted the first server on his laptop, so it vanished when he went out and its IP changed on every reconnect.