Server sending heartbeats when offline or private

[dawidg81]

Even after setting my server visibility to private (/server private) and disconnecting from the network, I noticed in the logs that the server continues (at least attempts) to send heartbeats to www.classicube.net. Is it expected to send heartbeats even when the server is set to private or offline?

[MESYETI]

it sends the heartbeat so you can still join with the server hash on the server list

[rdebath]

Actually, the server hash is just an md5 of the server and port.

The use case is connecting to your server on a public IP using the secure classicube.net mediated authentication rather than the alternative of no authentication for connection and an optional password (/pass command) for modifying the level you've connected to.

It can be pointed to some other auth server even a dummy, however, I don't think there's an option for removing all the auth hosts. But, as you've seen, pointing it at a server that doesn't exist is fine.

See: https://github.com/rdebath/mc/blob/master/addins/MPPass.cs to use the more secure method without a central server. Note that the hashes need to be kept secure until an MCGalaxy restart.