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10/25/2021
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I host a small private server for myself, my brother, and some of our friends. A few months ago, a guardian angle appeared randomly on the server and recommended that we Whitelist the server. I did. This week all of a sudden I've been seeing the server logs showing hundreds of log in attempts from accounts I don't know. There are 4 of them and they try accessing the server every 20 seconds for several hours.... (I'm not certain but the server log, looks like it shows a different IP address for each log in attempt). I have several questions:
Why is this happening? What is their goal?
Will it stop?
Do I need to do something to protect myself and my friends, other than having the Whitelist on?
As far as I understand, there is a bot attack on your server, whitelist will be enough to prevent this, just add your friends and let them enter. but I want to close the whitelist, if you say let's play other real players who want to enter. I recommend installing the bot protection plugin.
I host a small private server for myself, my brother, and some of our friends. A few months ago, a guardian angle appeared randomly on the server and recommended that we Whitelist the server. I did. This week all of a sudden I've been seeing the server logs showing hundreds of log in attempts from accounts I don't know. There are 4 of them and they try accessing the server every 20 seconds for several hours.... (I'm not certain but the server log, looks like it shows a different IP address for each log in attempt). I have several questions:
Why is this happening? What is their goal?
Will it stop?
Do I need to do something to protect myself and my friends, other than having the Whitelist on?
As far as I understand, there is a bot attack on your server, whitelist will be enough to prevent this, just add your friends and let them enter. but I want to close the whitelist, if you say let's play other real players who want to enter. I recommend installing the bot protection plugin.
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