How the access bukkit.org (the answer!)

[ammaraskar]

Well some of you who use bukkit.org might have been greeted with this message:

The new IP is: 174.129.154.164

DO NOT JUST USE IT AS A URL. THIS IS FOR PEOPLE WITH A CLUE, SO THEY CAN UPDATE THEIR HOSTS FILE IN THE INTERIM.
If you use it as a URL, then you will not be able to log in!

If you are connected to the new server, you will see "Bukkit can hold DNS!" in the corner which currently displays "Bukkit can hold anything!"

No worries, just follow this guide

For Windows:
Go to:
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
and open "hosts" with a text editor
Add the following line under "127.0.0.1 localhost"

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174.129.154.164 bukkit.org

For Mac OS:
Open terminal (I assume you know how to do this)
Type

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sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

Enter your password when prompted
Insert this line under "127.0.0.1 localhost"

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174.129.154.164 bukkit.org

press control-o to save the file and control-x to close the editor
On Leopard you can issue a simple Terminal command to flush the DNS cache, and have your host file changes to take immediate effect:

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dscacheutil -flushcache

If you aren't on leapord, restart your computer

[Aksel]

yay, i am helping a friend with bukkit today, and it were kinda unfourtuante that the plugin pages in the list were broken(temporary). hes installing plugins and rigging the server now so.... yeah!

[MJCS]

Manualy setting your hosts file should only be done by those knowing what the fuck they are doing.

[MrBlip]

Meaning most of you shouldn't be messing with it.

[Beaverman]

and you need to be admin, and have ownership... 2 more thing you don't teach to retards (said in a humorously british voice with a thick layer of sarcasm, something like the voice of yahtzee would be fitting)

[Josh43558]

Manualy setting your hosts file should only be done by those knowing what the fuck they are doing.

plenty of complicated computer things have become commonplace since minecraft. it will only further the insecurity of the interwebs.