Static IP Addressing

NachT · 27 Jan 2007 at 15:34

I'm soon migrating to an ISP who use Static IP's.

Was just woundering about how unsecure it is, compared to having a dynamic IP?

Loades of people will have my IP after a short period of time, and I wont be able to change it. Couldn't those people use like a packet sniffer or somthing and rob my bank details from when i'm using my card? or am I being to paranoid lol

oddjob62 · 27 Jan 2007 at 17:03

NachT said:
Couldn't those people use like a packet sniffer or somthing and rob my bank details from when i'm using my card? or am I being to paranoid lol

No. If you are careless with your port forwarding then there is a chance you could get hacked.

Packet sniffing would not be possilble unless it's someone in your ISP doing it. Anyway, any bank transactions you do should be done over SSL automacially (https sites) So that will be encrypted anyway.

bitslice · 27 Jan 2007 at 17:03

(OP) you are being too paranoid,
hackers use bots to pick out targets, they don't care if you are static or not,
it's just another IP to them

[TR]SweetSpotOz · 27 Jan 2007 at 17:26

NachT · 27 Jan 2007 at 18:45

oddjob62 said:
No. If you are careless with your port forwarding then there is a chance you could get hacked.

Packet sniffing would not be possilble unless it's someone in your ISP doing it. Anyway, any bank transactions you do should be done over SSL automacially (https sites) So that will be encrypted anyway.

I have ports 8000 - 9000 forwarded to my PC, is that ok or will I get hacked ?

Thanks all for the replys

sja360 · 27 Jan 2007 at 19:02

NachT said:
I have ports 8000 - 9000 forwarded to my PC, is that ok or will I get hacked ?

Thanks all for the replys

why those ports?

NachT · 27 Jan 2007 at 19:03

sja360 said:
why those ports?

I need those ones for my torrent's

oddjob62 · 27 Jan 2007 at 19:21

NachT said:
I have ports 8000 - 9000 forwarded to my PC, is that ok or will I get hacked ?

Thanks all for the replys

Depends what you've got set up on your PC.

ns400r · 27 Jan 2007 at 20:35

NachT said:
I need those ones for my torrent's

You need 1000 ports open to use torrents?
Which torrent program would that be then ?

NachT · 27 Jan 2007 at 21:24

I have 1000 ports open just incase i have 1000 downloades on

lol

I thought 1 torrent might use about 50 ports for different connections lol?

oddjob62 · 27 Jan 2007 at 22:01

NachT said:
I have 1000 ports open just incase i have 1000 downloades on lol

I thought 1 torrent might use about 50 ports for different connections lol?

I only need 1 port open for torrents. Using utorrent here.

[TR]SweetSpotOz · 27 Jan 2007 at 23:02