Its been a long time since I played, wouldn’t the best protection from that just be not broadcasting the server to the open internet? Never had an issue with servers that were technically fully open but only telling friends about it. I suppose whitelist is better than security through obscurity though.
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pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 days ago
In addition to other advice here just be aware that Minecraft servers are prime targets for griefing and abuse.
I recommend setting it to whitelist mode and then each kid your friend wants to join just has to send their username to him so you can add the username to the whitelist. Its an added overhead but it’s much less painful than reverting to a backup for a griefed server - and your kid won’t have to worry about other kids on-sharing the server address.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Nilz@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I’ve had a server running without whitelist because a friend hadn’t bought the game yet, within 2 weeks it was griefed. It was just the two of us playing.
There are crawler bots just searching for unprotected Minecraft servers and it’s just a matter of time before they find yours.
yonder@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I had My minecraft server scanned by at least 3 different bots, and I even had some friendly guy join my server that apparently found it using a bot he wrote. I’m now using a whitelist lol. One of the account names that scanned my server was "Fifth Column, which is a griefing group.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Like the other commenter said, I dunno how the heck the griefers find the servers - but if it’s on the open Internet, they do.
I set up a server for me an a handful of mates - advertised the address nowhere. They told nobody. A month in a friend and I were playing as usual, and a player with a Russian username joined. I’m like “uh hi who are you?”. They stayed another minute or two while saying nothing, then left.
I think they left when they realized i had an anti-griefer permissions mod that protects the blocks in an area around the spawn point from being modified (its called ‘Flan’). So they joined, saw the server had some protections, and decided it wouldn’t be much fun for them.
Whitelist immediately enabled - no more random Russians.
aarch64@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Easy way to avoid this: choose a different port. I think it’s a safe bet the crawlers are just checking 25565. I’ve had a server up for months with zero issues.
Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I’ve had a server up for almost 9 years never had any randoms even join. Don’t think I’ve ever used the default port tho
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It isn’t on the default port either, it’s on a random high number port which is why I thought it was extra odd they found it.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It isn’t on the default port either, it’s on a random high number port which is why I thought it was extra odd they found it.
aarch64@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Huh, that is funky. Fingers crossed mine survives. I think I’ll go and set up some backups, now that I think about it.