Security question.Public Ip of my mining farm revealed for mistake.

[pepitopalotes]

Hello, I have a couple questions after revealed my public ip directly linked with my mining farm for mistake: 1. Im in the process of changing it, meanwhile, should i do anything else? Should i turn off the farm until then? What dangers im having directly? Its possible for an experimental person to know the exact position of my farm?
2. After changing my public IP, its still possible for a hacker to know the position of my farm?
Thank you.

[Lindworm]

Hi,
lets try to get through it.

1. Why would you change it, you would always "reveal" your public IP adress any time you send out a hash or do anything on the internet. A good Firewall (like a decent router has) is protection enough. Don't use standard ports when you connect from remote or even better use a vpn to connect to it. If you have no inbound traffic, just block anything incoming.

It is not possible to know the exact location of your farm. Only where the Point Of Presence with your ISP is (depends on there infrastructure, might be the first switch in your street or the main switch at the backbone)

When you have a firewall I don't see so much danger. But it's always a good idea to get a professional looking at it. (or reading through the internet if you want to learn for yourself.)

As long as your farm has no insecure inputs, you are safe for the most part. I'd need to know the complete structure of your miner network setup to tell you an my assumption, that is not enough information.

2 depends on your definition on position. In the physical world (see above) no, in the internet your public IP won't be a secret for long :-) It sounds a bit linke you don't understand how the net works (no offence)

Ask away.  

[pepitopalotes]

Hello, thank you for your time.
1. This public IP is now linked with me and my mining farm (through a picture), I've a computer engineer working that is saying me exactly the same as you, but im worried because i dont know if this information can be used to get my exact location, i mean, if i get this IP i cant do shit, but i supose that there are some people over there that maybe can do something.
2. Im asking this for the posibilites of localizate an unused IP.

[coinfoundry]

Hello, thank you for your time.
1. This public IP is now linked with me and my mining farm (through a picture), I've a computer engineer working that is saying me exactly the same as you, but im worried because i dont know if this information can be used to get my exact location, i mean, if i get this IP i cant do shit, but i supose that there are some people over there that maybe can do something.
2. Im asking this for the posibilites of localizate an unused IP.

Like @Lindworm said. You've reveiled your public IP many times before. Basically everytime you've submitted a share. Unless your farm is not behind a capable firewall there's nothing to fear and your situation did not change at all.

[pepitopalotes]

Ok. Thank you so much

[felixbrucker]

Like @Lindworm said. You've reveiled your public IP many times before. Basically everytime you've submitted a share. Unless your farm is not behind a capable firewall there's nothing to fear and your situation did not change at all.

except a decent (cheap) ddos of course

but then again you would need people wanting to do that (harm your income)