Proxied Domain still traced back to original IP?
Hi,
I have a minecraft server (which I host myself), and instead of exposing my IP to the world, leaving me vunerable to DDOS attacks, I chose cloudflare. I did the setup correctly, and my domain is active, however when I ping my domain, it still goes back to the original IP, instead of cloudflare's IP.
Did I misunderstand this whole proxy thing, or did I do something wrong?
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You have to minecraft IPs unproxied because Cloudflare doesn't proxy TCP
Ah, so there is no way to mask my home IP?
if you have a small player base you could use zero trust
Alternatively you could also rent a cheap vps (5 - 6 bucks) and use it as a proxy.
true
this will however only solve the issue of your exposed IP, in terms of ddos protection cloudflare will still be better
Cloudflare still protects it even if the ip is exposed?
Do you know if there is DDOS prot even if IP is exposed?
From what I have read, this doesn't require port forwarding so your IP shouldn't get exposed
They're just proxying traffic, so yes, they'll absorb any DoS attack. Whether or not they're capable of doing that is another story (they don't mention it explicitly). DoS mitigation is expensive, and this seems to be a free service primarily, so I wouldn't expect much (other than booting you off if you attract too much attention in terms of attacks, which is the standard practice among hosting providers)
I have port forwarded my machine on port 25565, and linked that to cloudflare
it doesnt work without port forwarding pretty sure
Yeah if you are using Cloudflare, it requires port forwarding and spectrum
yeah i might just use TCP shield
did some tests, cloudflare didn't do much ðŸ˜