Hid or Mask IP address of Domain URL

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dibrando1

dibrando1

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I have a Minecraft Server hosted on my home computer, and a domain that I own with HostGator pointing to my homes internal IP Address so when people want to join the minecraft server, all they have to do is type in the domain I own instead of my homes internal IP Address. If someone tries to "ping" or "resolve" my domain to get my home internal IP Address, is there a way for the "ping" or "resolve" to return a fake IP Address or no IP Address at all?
 
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nukemaster
Ping and resolve have to find your ip address as that is how they can talk to your system. Even if you get the router to not respond, they will still get the IP.

This should be your external IP and should not be much of an issue as long as your ISP and your router are doing a good job.

Practically everything you do on the internet is just a pile of connections to different IPs on varying ports. In general it is not harmful.

If you are getting you internal IP(ie 192.168.x.xx) then they would not even be able to ping you from outside your network.
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nukemaster

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Ping and resolve have to find your ip address as that is how they can talk to your system. Even if you get the router to not respond, they will still get the IP.

This should be your external IP and should not be much of an issue as long as your ISP and your router are doing a good job.

Practically everything you do on the internet is just a pile of connections to different IPs on varying ports. In general it is not harmful.

If you are getting you internal IP(ie 192.168.x.xx) then they would not even be able to ping you from outside your network.
 
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bill001g

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You really can't stop someone from getting your IP and doing bad stuff to you if that is your worry. To work the minecraft game app on the user machines much have a way to figure out were your server is. They just use standard dns lookup to do that. There is really no way you can allow the game to use DNS but not other applications. Still even if you were to use some really secret way to tell the game where the server is the traffic must flow between the end users machine and your server via IP. While the game is running there will be all kinds of data available both in the users PC as well as the users router showing that there is a open session.

The only way to fix something like this would be to use a VPN software that uses a intervening server to hide the addresses from both ends.
 
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