I run a pivpn setup so that nothing is exposed to the internet at all. It's just too dangerous now. It was bad back in the day, but now I literally have bots trying to join any public facing Minecraft server. It's so many times worse now than it was a decade ago.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I guess the bots are trying to find servers still vulnerable to the Log4J exploit. Man that was a juicy one 👀

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh man. I have an open minecraft server for my kids and their friends. Every few weeks I have someone show up to the server leaving notes or interacting with us trying to educate me on whitelisting.

I get more "educators" than i do bots. It's actually quite annoying. I dont know what accounts these kids login with, you're not educating me. The server is literally for 6-8 year olds. It's been wiped 100s of times. I don't care. Stop. The server is grief resistant anyway. And my ban list is long (and getting at least one longer). /little rant

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, it would take seconds for someone to log in and paste bad links in chat/send weird messages so yeah, a server for a 6-8 yr olds is absolutely one I would turn whitelist on for.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have never had any of my MC servers run without a whitelist, even the one I had publicly listed on planet minecraft back in the day. You should know who has access to your machines on some level.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

I used to run servers a decade ago and open was fine. Never had a random join. Crazy to think bots are trying random IPs now, probably would whitelist in that case

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

You assume that those links would work. Kids machines have DNS whitelists.

I'm not worried.