Is it bad to forward ports temporarily to game with friends? And deactivate after?
I dont have the energy to learn new fanglad networking since everything is so insecure now…im used to 2009 servers.
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Stez827@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Just use tailscale and don’t forward any ports and you’ll be fine
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
planish@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
No?
I mean, how else are you meant to play the game actually?
I guess you could be like opening ports just to particular IPs. And you need a game that isn’t Swiss cheese that gets immediately hacked.
But like hackers don’t sort of seep in through port forwards; they need to physically identify and exploit a particular vulnerability.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ah. Well mostly it’s for voxelibre or armegatron nowadays
Stez827@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s not really complicated at all you just download the tailscale app make an account and then hit share to your friends. That’s how I run a Minecraft server for me and my friends because I was too lazy to figure out how to port forward. It was easier to just sudo apt install tailscale and essentially be done.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That sounds so easy my friends could do it! Ill need to read up
dieTasse@feddit.org 2 months ago
Exactly what I wanted to say + don’t install something you don’t trust.
k4j8@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s a lot of technical answers here, but Tailscale is what you want OP. Self-hosting is only a risk if you open ports. Tailscale doesn’t require opening any ports.
Alternatively, you could set up your own VPN and forward one port to the VPN. The risk of port forwarding to VPN such as Wireguard or OpenVPN is minimal.
The risk of being attacked applies to those that port forward web traffic so it can be accessed without a VPN by themselves or others. If you don’t do that, the risk is very low.