Is no-ip safe?

[Helpful Tech Witch]

this is one of thoese is it networking or servers posts.

I recently got a abomination Minecraft server running. It's based on papermc 1.12.2, uses Floodgate and GeyserMC and ViaVersion to allow java 1.12.2-1.17.1 players and players of any bedrock version to play.

I'm just using the java port for both, though that means there's an extra step for connecting from bedrock (changing the port from the default bedrock to 25565).

 

I've been thinking of using a service like No ip, which as I understand can assign a free ip, to be able to say just put in javabedrockdualserv.hopto.org and there you go, instead of here a ip. Double check its right, now put this port blah blah

 

I have a couple questions. Is it safe to us it? Just giving my private ip to someone when I don't kno if it will be logged and attached to the account made and sold to the highest bidder to be ddosed wouldn't be fun

can it be used to specify a certain port? Instead of it needing that address and a port?can I even

use it for something like this? Or does it only work for web pages?

[Oshino Shinobu]

You'd be adding your IP to a public DNS record, so it being logged by no-ip really isn't a concern as it will be publicly accessible and logged in DNS by design. That does pose a potential security risk, yes, as does hosting basically anything on your own network. No-ip itself is safe. I personally use it for VPN access via an A record rather than using the IP directly as that changes.

 

It doesn't support port numbers, it's a simple DNS A record that resolves a hostname into an IP address. You can use it for this kind of thing, yes. It's the same as accessing the server via IP, just using a hostname instead, so anything you can do via IP, you can do via the No-IP DNS entry. 

 

 

EDIT: In terms of security, the best thing to do is when configuring your portforward/firewall rule, only whitelist IPs you trust, assuming you're only letting friends and people you know onto the server. This poses its own problem though, as most consumer IPs will change, so the list can become outdated quite quickly. 

 

EDIT2: Actually, it seems you might be able to specify the port if you choose Port 80 Redirect instead of a normal hostname. You can specify the port to use when create a record via that option: https://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/port-80-redirect/ Not sure if it will work for what you want as it appears as a URL record for standard HTTP traffic, so may only redirect that (which is port 80)

[BondiBlue]

Yes, No-IP is safe. I've used them for years. IIRC you can simply specify a port number just the same as you would for a normal IP address when you're typing the DDNS address, but don't quote me on that. I haven't needed to use specific ports with it in a few years. 

[the gamer that is bad]

1 hour ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

this is one of thoese is it networking or servers posts.

I recently got a abomination Minecraft server running. It's based on papermc 1.12.2, uses Floodgate and GeyserMC and ViaVersion to allow java 1.12.2-1.17.1 players and players of any bedrock version to play.

I'm just using the java port for both, though that means there's an extra step for connecting from bedrock (changing the port from the default bedrock to 25565).

 

I've been thinking of using a service like No ip, which as I understand can assign a free ip, to be able to say just put in javabedrockdualserv.hopto.org and there you go, instead of here a ip. Double check its right, now put this port blah blah

 

I have a couple questions. Is it safe to us it? Just giving my private ip to someone when I don't kno if it will be logged and attached to the account made and sold to the highest bidder to be ddosed wouldn't be fun

can it be used to specify a certain port? Instead of it needing that address and a port?can I even

use it for something like this? Or does it only work for web pages?

this is off topic but how did you make a server with all these features 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

6 hours ago, the gamer that is bad said:

this is off topic but how did you make a server with all these features 

Couple really cool plugins.

it uses geyser mic to allow bedrock players to conect to a tabs server. Usually both need to be up to day, and you need a Java account still.

floodgate allows bedrock players to connect without a Java account

via version allows you to conect to a server running a old version with a new one.
with a more powerful carver I’d just run a 1.17 server and cut viaversion

[the gamer that is bad]

On 11/13/2021 at 4:08 AM, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Couple really cool plugins.

it uses geyser mic to allow bedrock players to conect to a tabs server. Usually both need to be up to day, and you need a Java account still.

floodgate allows bedrock players to connect without a Java account

via version allows you to conect to a server running a old version with a new one.
with a more powerful carver I’d just run a 1.17 server and cut viaversion

do you know how to add plugins onto a server you host on your own?

[Helpful Tech Witch]

6 hours ago, the gamer that is bad said:

do you know how to add plugins onto a server you host on your own?

Yea

You put them in the plug-ins folder

[mtz_federico]

For the port situation you could use an SRV record. An SRV record let's you point a domain to an ip and a port.

This means that something like bedrock.yourNoipDomain.com, would point to your ip and your port.

It is also useful if you want to run multiple servers on the same machine but don't want to make a server lobby.

 

no-ip has a tutorial for the java version here. According to this cloudflare forum post, for it to work in bedrock you need to change the record to UDP. Like:

_minecraft._tcp

to

_minecraft._udp

 

I have only tested it on the java version and it worked.