Server Security Help

[dhillonjustin99]

Here's the deal. I got a game server up and running. It's a minecraft server out of an old pc I repaired. It's prefect, but for people to connect I need to give them my public ip. I don't want to give strangers my home location. What are my options?

 

For clearance, I have a domain name, but that won't help because they can just ping it and get my ip. I'm thinking of something in-between the clients and my server. They will connect to that. And then to me. I tried a vpn, but to no luck. Also my attempts at proxy servers have failed me too. What am I missing? Please leave links of tutorials I can follow. I'm trying everything I can find online, but nothing seams to work!

 

Btw, this project is trying to get a server up and running for free (free pc, free domain name, etc.) People only give free options below.

 

Thank You!

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to Servers and NAS

[Dutch_Master]

6 hours ago, dhillonjustin99 said:

I don't want to give strangers my home location

If you run a publicly accessible server, you're gonna expose your IP address. Otherwise, how can people connect to it if they can't find it? However, IP addresses are allocated in blocks to ISP's so the only ones that know the link between your IP address and your physical home address is your ISP.

[Sir Asvald]

If you don't want people connecting to your server and getting your IP address, why not set up a VPS or get a dedicated server? As @Dutch_Mastersaid, if you're going host something you're going to expose your IP but it won't show exactly where your house is..  take a look at the screenshot. It says my location is on Edgeware.. I don't live there.

 

[dhillonjustin99]

1 hour ago, Sir Asvald said:

If you don't want people connecting to your server and getting your IP address, why not set up a VPS or get a dedicated server? As @Dutch_Mastersaid, if you're going host something you're going to expose your IP but it won't show exactly where your house is..  take a look at the screenshot. It says my location is on Edgeware.. I don't live there.

 

That is exactly what i want! But how do i do it?

My asus router has a vps function with openvpn, but i can't get it too work.

 

Do you have any links on how to do it?

[Sir Asvald]

Just now, dhillonjustin99 said:

That is exactly what i want! But how do i do it?

My asus router has a vps function with openvpn, but i can't get it too work.

 

Do you have any links on how to do it?

Do what exactly? That's not a VPN..that is the actual location of the IP (or the Internet exchange)

 

Here is what an Internet exchange is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point

[dhillonjustin99]

Just now, Sir Asvald said:

Do what exactly? That's not a VPN..that is the actual location of the IP (or the Internet exchange)

 

Here is what an Internet exchange is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point

Just how to hide my location, in any way.

[Sir Asvald]

6 minutes ago, dhillonjustin99 said:

Just how to hide my location, in any way.

If you want to hide your IP there is one method and it is complicated to set up and needs some technical knowledge. You will need a spare PC to do this

 

 

[dhillonjustin99]

38 minutes ago, Sir Asvald said:

If you want to hide your IP there is one method and it is complicated to set up and needs some technical knowledge. You will need a spare PC to do this

 

 

I'll look into it, I have a spare computer, but it is slooooooooooooooooooooow.

 

Phantom x64

2G ddr2

6 hundred gb hdd

Onboard gpu is a bottleneck, wifi chip is a bottleneck, basic motherboard i/o speeds is a bottleneck.

It's a vista box too slow for vista.

[Sir Asvald]

2 minutes ago, dhillonjustin99 said:

I'll look into it, I have a spare computer, but it is slooooooooooooooooooooow.

 

Phantom x64

2G ddr2

6 hundred gb hdd

Onboard gpu is a bottleneck, wifi chip is a bottleneck, basic motherboard i/o speeds is a bottleneck.

It's a vista box too slow for vista.

Hardware might be too old for pfsense.  

[Loki0111]

Generally speaking I don't recommend VPN's for public facing game servers.

 

Its just going to create a huge headache and if you are using the router provided one you are letting people past the router firewall and onto your LAN.

 

Your public WAN IP is assigned to your router not your PC, your PC will have a LAN IP assigned to it by your router. Your WAN IP is assigned by your ISP and anything connecting to a box on your network will see your WAN IP, its largely unavoidable.

 

You want to go into your router settings and port forward the specific ports you are using for your Minecraft server. Additionally disable remote access to the server admin account and install the windows version of IPban to lock out any accounts failing authentication too many times. Make sure your router has some kind of protection for DOS attacks.

[SteveiJobs]

If I were you I would worry less about somebody identifying you by public IP and worry more about all the potentially unencrypted traffic going through your router. 

 

Seriously, it would take a decent amount of work for somebody to identify you by IP, but a person capable of doing that is more than capable of identifying way more by capturing your traffic.