i just posted my ip on internet

[deleteduser1535945]

the title says it I posted my ip on minecraft forums

instead of posting another one

can I be hacked?

[deleteduser1535945]

help pls I am worried

[Squirrel724]

Theoretically yes. You can get a new IP by disconnecting your PC from your network. When you reconnect it should assign a new IP.

[Curious Pineapple]

1 minute ago, Squirrel724 said:

Theoretically yes. You can get a new IP by disconnecting your PC from your network. When you reconnect it should assign a new IP.

That wont change the WAN IP.

 

1 minute ago, 27md said:

help pls I am worried

Turn your router off and on again if you are worried, that will get you a new address

[m0k]

go back to the post and delete it 

or go back and edit the post 

 

if someone was a reall asshole yea they could,

dont bring attention to it,

and dont do it again

[deleteduser1535945]

but I posted public one it never changes not my ipv4

[Praesi]

Just delete the Post.

[SeanAngelo]

1 minute ago, 27md said:

but I posted public one it never changes not my ipv4

contact your network provider.

[deleteduser1535945]

I did delte it

[deleteduser1535945]

there was 8 views on it do you think someone of those 8 will hack my pc?

 

[TetraSky]

6 minutes ago, Squirrel724 said:

Theoretically yes. You can get a new IP by disconnecting your PC from your network. When you reconnect it should assign a new IP.

1- Disconnecting your PC from the network doesn't change the IP of the network itself.

2- That's only if he has a dynamic IP from his ISP, which is unlikely these days, unless he pay extra for that service.(which many ISPs charge you for, at least they do here)

He's more likely to have a Static IP, which doesn't change even when disconnecting the modem.

 

 

Edit : Derped.

[tlink]

while it generally is a very bad idea to post your ip it doesn't make you hackable. it just puts a name to an address. your ip is the address of your home on the internet. the only real way they can hack you is if you're port forwarding anything or if your computer is directly connected to the modem.

[TetraSky]

2 minutes ago, 27md said:

there was 8 views on it do you think someone of those 8 will hack my pc?

 

You expect some random minecrafter to even know anything about hacking past pre-made scripts? It's more likely that nothing will happen. Don't worry about it. They aren't there to find hacking target, but to find servers to play in.

[Curious Pineapple]

2 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

2- That's only if he has a static IP from his IPS, which is unlikely these days, unless he pays extra for that service. He's more likely to have a Dynamic IP, which doesn't change even if when disconnecting the modem.

Ermm, whaa?

[deleteduser1535945]

1 minute ago, tlink said:

while it generally is a very bad idea to post your ip it doesn't make you hackable. it just puts a name to an address. your ip is the address of your home on the internet. the only real way they can hack you is if you're port forwarding anything or if your computer is directly connected to the modem.

I was portforwarding but stopped it

[RollinLower]

1 minute ago, 27md said:

so I cant be hacked?

you really think 8 views of a Minecraft forum post are 8 hackers?

[deleteduser1535945]

why do a lot of people react funny on this post is it that funny

[TetraSky]

1 minute ago, Curious Pineapple said:

Ermm, whaa?

I derped, inverted static and dynamic.

[Curious Pineapple]

1 minute ago, TetraSky said:

I derped, inverted static and dynamic.

I've never had a static IP, Usually you'd pay extra for that. ISP's don't like people hosting things form consumer connections.

[RollinLower]

2 minutes ago, 27md said:

why do a lot of people react funny on this post is it that funny

you're being pretty paranoid to be honest.

[Himommies]

Do you seriously thinks that the pepole on a minecraft are hackers if it was reddit sure I would understand but not minecraft

[TetraSky]

2 minutes ago, Curious Pineapple said:

I've never had a static IP, Usually you'd pay extra for that. ISP's don't like people hosting things form consumer connections.

Well it's Static all the way here. I've had the same IP for the past 2 years now. Most people I know also have static IPs. Especially now that IPv4 addresses ran out, they shouldn't be able to just let you change your IP every 5 minutes, unless they recycle them, but even there, that's just limiting their growth.

[deleteduser1535945]

how would he even do this with software?

 

[MoonlightSylv]

7 minutes ago, 27md said:

so I cant be hacked?

Try and edit the post, then restart your router/modem, most ISPs give you a dynamic IP that switches when the router/modem is restarted.

[SuperShermanTanker]

15 minutes ago, 27md said:

the title says it I posted my ip on minecraft forums

instead of posting another one

can I be hacked?

You'll be fine the chances of you being hacked are like one in a million because no one will want to hack a small little home PC and your PC and home network have somthing called a firewall that will flat out block anyone from the outside from trying to get into your network so your perfectly safe and some forums have the IP tracking thing and they show the IP to you but no one else but the people who run the site can see it so only the people who own the site will see it and they use it as just security to keep track of who visited the site and they keep it in a log file with a billion other IP addresses from every other user who visited the site and there are so many address in that log file that if anyone tried to hack every single address in that log file it would be like trying to hack every computer in New York city. So don't be concerned the site only tracks IP addresses for security reasons and doesn't display them publicly and can only be seen by the owner of the website. Also your own router and computer have a firewall and they are usually set to block anyone from the outside from trying to gain access to the network and it's nearly impossible to get past a firewall that denys you access to a network or machine.