Need some help setting up ports.

[Knockout]

Hello mc-market,

Recently I've been trying to get voting setup on my bungeecord, but its a bit harder than a usual setup. I've setup votifier plenty of times before but will just need some advice on if its okay to open a port that I've allocated to votifier that I'm planning on setting up on the bungeecord host.

Issues:
- Every server apart from bungeecord is local hosted.
- All ports apart from used ones are closed from previous sys admin. (should be secure) :tup:
- Must have votifier setup on bungeecord as other servers are simply not possible to get it working.
- If opening a random port for voting is a bad idea?

I would like to get voting setup but for it not to compromise the server security.
Requesting help as I know very little about ports, would like some advice on what would work best, and if anyone has done this before.

Feel free to message me on discord.
#Shamus0001

Thanks!

 

[Maury]

No, it is not a bad idea. Opening unused ports is a bad idea.

 

[Maury]

Not really, depending on what service is running on that port. Unless you're purposely opening up a bind/reverse shell, then it's a very bad idea.

OP stated that he wanted to open a port for Votifier...