I've recently created a Minecraft server, for me and a few friends, which also runs super on localhost, but I want to play with friends together. That's why I wanted to configure the router of our family. But my parents think that this could be dangerous. That's why I wanted to ask you if this is dangerous. I just want to play with friends via whitelist and do not give IP to me. Is that OK?
First time:
- Passing on his IP is not dangerous, you can follow someone only up to a certain degree in real life / if you give this IP to your friends there will be nothing.
Setting up on a router is very cumbersome; You could use websites like aternos.org. There you will get a free server after logging in, saving your worlds, running smoothly on each version and not having a large queue. If you want you can play there with one or the other mod.
To answer your question:
No, it is not dangerous. Just awkward from my point of view.
But you learn a lot from it…
As long as you only play with your friends and do not pass on the IP to strangers, it is harmless. However, you should be aware that you have no static IP in your home, that means that your IP always changes again. In addition, your friends may experience lags if your internet connection is not good enough.
You make it possible to access a specific port of your computer from the Internet. If there's a security vulnerability in the Minecraft server, an attacker could exploit them to gain access to your machine and data. From this computer, he could then attack other computers in your house. However, this is rarely the case with private individuals, rather than using bots to scan entire network segments for vulnerable services.
If you get the whitelisting approval, that would greatly reduce the risk. However, you'll need to adjust the whitelist regularly as your friends' ip's are likely to change daily.
Jap.
And his own too, which makes the whole thing harmless again…
Even fixed IPs are vulnerable, but what's on port 25565 … ¿
