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What is wrong with posting your home server ip address here?
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The main thing is because this is a public forum. You don't want a random person to see your IP address, run NMAP on the IP address and find a way into your home network.
That is my reason for not wanting to publish your IP address.
Steve
That is my reason for not wanting to publish your IP address.
Steve
Thanks, never thought of that. So if the webserver assigned to the ip address gets hacked, and is running Linux, only the Windows machines would be vulnerable?
Your machine could be used to sniff network traffic and transmit it to a 3rd party, act as a spam relay mail server, become part of a hijacked botnet, etc. Linux servers are susceptible to exploits and if taken control of can be a major risk like any Windows PC. I manage over 15 Linux servers at work, trust me when I say a LOT goes into properly securing them.
no.
Although Linux is secure, we can make it just as insecure as windows, just as we can improve the security of windows. If, for instance someone can get ssh access to your server, and then are able to guess at your root password, then your server is infected too. It may not be a virus, but a person using your server for their own needs can be just as bad as being infected with a virus.
Unfortunately, the most insecure part of any system is the bag of flesh and bones sat at its keyboard.
Although Linux is secure, we can make it just as insecure as windows, just as we can improve the security of windows. If, for instance someone can get ssh access to your server, and then are able to guess at your root password, then your server is infected too. It may not be a virus, but a person using your server for their own needs can be just as bad as being infected with a virus.
Unfortunately, the most insecure part of any system is the bag of flesh and bones sat at its keyboard.
WHOA! You're a genius! Why didn't anyone think of that before?! NOBODY WILL EVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT HACKING AGAIN!!!
And what is to stop DDOS attacks either by excessive DNS queries against your box (even though you may or may not be running DNS), hitting your webserver (there are still boxes out there infected by the Code Red and Nimbda worms that while would mainly affect IIS servers, can give you a DOS on your webserver), synflooding you giving you DOS on everything, or exploit your buggy libraries provided by Debian (or any of its derivatives) to arbitrarily run code as root? All of that can be done by just knowing your IP address, from which you can find out the distro of Linux that you are using, and off you go.
Same applies to Macs as well. So no, I'd rather not have my IP address posted; even though that would not excuse myself or anyone from properly securing your machine.
BL.
But the IP address is public anyway so does NOT publishing really make much of a difference?
Exactly if you ping macrumors you would get the ip address too, so its not the end of the world!
I've noticed you revert to sarcastic remarks and jokes in a lot of your posts. Why must you post things like that if it doesn't effect you at all?
I would hazard a guess that Arn and crew have put a fair amount of effort into hardening the servers for MacRumors. If you've done the same, then no worries.
Comparing a commercial site to your personal website? or do you have a commercial site of your own?
If you have to ask about the downside of publishing that info, then you probably shouldn't be doing it honestly.
