Hiding Dedi Server IP through cloudflare
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You can use an SRV record to prevent people finding the IP by running a ping on your domain, but this can still be resolved using nslookup.
Ultimately it isn't possible to completely hide it, as the client needs to be able to know what IP to connect to after resolving the DNS record for your domain.
Is there a specific reason you want the IP hidden?
Ultimately it isn't possible to completely hide it, as the client needs to be able to know what IP to connect to after resolving the DNS record for your domain.
Is there a specific reason you want the IP hidden?
I want to reduce the thread of DOS attacks and hacks.
Surely if you're using cloudflare, DOS isn't a problem?
The best solution here would be moving to a host that has DDoS protection.
You could set up a GRE tunnel between a DDoS protected VPS and your server, but that will just add additional latency.
CloudFlare only proxies http/https traffic, unfortunately it can't protect game servers.
Only way would be to use some kind of proxy / tunnel. (GRE tunnel is the more popular way).
The proxy kind of acts like a middle man. (Client -> Proxy -> Server) that way the Client only sees the Proxy IP and not the servers IP, keeping it safe. In the event of a DDoS attack, its the Proxy that gets hit and not the server. This is often used when a server has little or no DDoS protection.
Could be setup fairly cheap with a VPS, but a service like proxypipe would be better. One thing to note though, using a proxy does increase latency (PING) in most cases. The further away the proxy is from the server, the higher the latency usually is.
The proxy kind of acts like a middle man. (Client -> Proxy -> Server) that way the Client only sees the Proxy IP and not the servers IP, keeping it safe. In the event of a DDoS attack, its the Proxy that gets hit and not the server. This is often used when a server has little or no DDoS protection.
Could be setup fairly cheap with a VPS, but a service like proxypipe would be better. One thing to note though, using a proxy does increase latency (PING) in most cases. The further away the proxy is from the server, the higher the latency usually is.
Except mc server's don't work with cloudflare
He's talking about an MC server?Except mc server's don't work with cloudflare
Ah. It's a dedi, my mistake.
So ye, i don't think it would work for OP.
As mc won't get through CF protection.
I never understand why people want them on the same server,but that's me
So ye, i don't think it would work for OP.
As mc won't get through CF protection.
Idk, they could get like example.com go to both website + mc server
That's the only "real use" for it.
That's the only use I'm aware of. Even then it's still possible on separate servers, just by listening on different ports.
I mean yes it's possible.. Just more complicated.
Can't you use ProxyPipe?
It costs a shit load?
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