Solved Can people hack my computer trough a minecraft server?

Discussion in 'Bukkit Help' started by Masterflapdrol, Feb 16, 2013.

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    Masterflapdrol

    Hello everyone!
    I've been thinking about opening a server on my computer using a DNS.
    The question i had is:
    can people hack my and my parents their computer trough me opening a port (with firewall)
    for a minecraft server.
    People connect to my server using a DNS. witch is hosted at http://www.dtdns.com
    Is it safe to do this?
    It might seem silly I think its safe. But my dad wants to be sure to give me his password for me to open the port. Anyone?
    P.S. I've already tryed google. But I only found people posting about players that just want to scare people. I know theese. :)
     
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    Refalm

    They can't enter your computer if the only ports you open are for Minecraft.

    Cool nickname btw :D
     
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    Masterflapdrol

    Thanks!, :)
     
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    zipfe

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    Masterflapdrol

    Yes, I'm already doing that. Thank you.
     
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    Europia79

    Refalm, are you suggesting that if other ports are open ? then it would be possible ? If so, what port(s) ?

    Cause i have several open: one each for Bukkit, MySQL database, HTTP, FTP, a wrapper, Multicraft, Spacebukkit (i was testing them out), Neverwinter Nights, Votifier, and the FTP passives (not open atm)... Plus, a lot of people have another for Dynmap (which is pretty popular).

    Thanks
     
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    Rawrツ

    They can't hack you,but they can ddos you
     
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    Masterflapdrol

    Not afraid of ddos. our firewall has got a protection against that ;D
     
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    Double0negative

    gl when they saturate the network in front of your firewall.
     
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    Masterflapdrol

    I only
    I only have a couple ports open. For Bukkit, HTTP. FTP, and mail and my dads website. Most of them can only get files in that are requested. And are protected by a firewall.

    I didn't know that. hmmm.

    EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
     
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    Double0negative

    Assuming that your firewall is on your router, the firewall will block the computer from being hit, but your router/internet line will still feel the full ddos.
     
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    jayfella

    If somebody wanted to hack your computer, it would make absolutely no difference as to whether there was a bukkit server running on it or not.

    A port is just a number. Some numbers are assigned as default to specific jobs, such as port 21, 25, 80, 8080, 3306.

    Your home-connection won't get DDoSed - or should I say - is partially protected from anything like that. Your ISP will deal with it as it will affect a large amount of people, however don't be surprised if they lay the blame on you and incur some kind of charge or warning.

    You are far more likely to hit your upload speed limit and thus render your server slow and laggy and end up renting some kind of server before you get popular enough to warrant any of these concerns.
     
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    Masterflapdrol

    I didn't know that. hmmm.
    Thank you. I think I'm going to mark this post solved :)
     
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    Refalm

    Definitely MySQL is you leave it un-updated, or put all the databases on the root user.
    I sincerely hope you're being sarcastic :D
     
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    Masterflapdrol

    yes
     
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