Comment by cuu508 20 hours ago Yeah, but then you are always exposing your public IP. 5 comments cuu508 Reply monster_truck 20 hours ago Exposing it to what exactly? The internet? Yes that's how it works cuu508 18 hours ago If somebody learns that such-and-such DynDNS URL is mine, they can always do a DNS lookup to find my current IP address. They can:- find my approximate physical location- regularly scan ports on my IP and wait for me to accidentally expose a service I didn't mean to- track me in any access logs they have access to mitxela 12 hours ago They can, and do, do this with or without DynDNS. 1 reply → johng 20 hours ago This requires no port forwarding, so someone brute force scanning your IP won't find this and your open port. they also might have a harder time figuring out what service has been exposed since the port number itself will be unknown.
monster_truck 20 hours ago Exposing it to what exactly? The internet? Yes that's how it works cuu508 18 hours ago If somebody learns that such-and-such DynDNS URL is mine, they can always do a DNS lookup to find my current IP address. They can:- find my approximate physical location- regularly scan ports on my IP and wait for me to accidentally expose a service I didn't mean to- track me in any access logs they have access to mitxela 12 hours ago They can, and do, do this with or without DynDNS. 1 reply → johng 20 hours ago This requires no port forwarding, so someone brute force scanning your IP won't find this and your open port. they also might have a harder time figuring out what service has been exposed since the port number itself will be unknown.
cuu508 18 hours ago If somebody learns that such-and-such DynDNS URL is mine, they can always do a DNS lookup to find my current IP address. They can:- find my approximate physical location- regularly scan ports on my IP and wait for me to accidentally expose a service I didn't mean to- track me in any access logs they have access to mitxela 12 hours ago They can, and do, do this with or without DynDNS. 1 reply →
johng 20 hours ago This requires no port forwarding, so someone brute force scanning your IP won't find this and your open port. they also might have a harder time figuring out what service has been exposed since the port number itself will be unknown.
Exposing it to what exactly? The internet? Yes that's how it works
If somebody learns that such-and-such DynDNS URL is mine, they can always do a DNS lookup to find my current IP address. They can:
- find my approximate physical location
- regularly scan ports on my IP and wait for me to accidentally expose a service I didn't mean to
- track me in any access logs they have access to
They can, and do, do this with or without DynDNS.
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This requires no port forwarding, so someone brute force scanning your IP won't find this and your open port. they also might have a harder time figuring out what service has been exposed since the port number itself will be unknown.