DDoS and abuse on Vassal

General Discussion
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I’m having a problem with a really bad troll on Vassal. He’s not only messing with my games but now he’s also DDoSing me whenever we’re both on. I’ll get dropped when no one else gets dropped and he’s admitted to doing it. Changing my nickname doesn’t help because he still sees my IP and knows it’s me. My questions:

  1. Is there any way to hide my IP on Vassal? (Why do you even show this to people???)
  2. Is there any way to run my IP through some kind of proxy or spoof or something so it’s changed? I know you can do it for web pages but for Vassal I don’t know how I could do it.
  3. Is there any way to get him banned?

Thanks.

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Thus spake Jake32383:

I’m having a problem with a really bad troll on Vassal. He’s not only
messing with my games but now he’s also DDoSing me whenever we’re both
on. I’ll get dropped when no one else gets dropped and he’s admitted to
doing it. Changing my nickname doesn’t help because he still sees my IP
and knows it’s me. My questions:

Can you describe more fully what the troll is doing?

  1. Is there any way to hide my IP on Vassal? (Why do you even show this
    to people???)

No.

  1. Is there any way to run my IP through some kind of proxy or spoof or
    something so it’s changed? I know you can do it for web pages but for
    Vassal I don’t know how I could do it.

An SSL tunnel might work for something like this.

  1. Is there any way to get him banned?

There isn’t any banning mechanism in VASSAL 3. The only thing we can
do is block by IP address, but this won’t work if the troll is using
multiple IPs.

–
J.

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Name-calling and general harassment. I guess I can’t prove DDoS but is there any way I could record the harassment to get him banned?

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Thus spake Jake32383:

Name-calling and general harassment. I guess I can’t prove DDoS but is
there any way I could record the harassment to get him banned?

What I wanted to know is what he’s doing to disconnect you.

–
J.

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I have no idea what he’s doing. I assume it’s something outside of Vassal but I don’t really know. I just don’t understand why I have to broadcast my IP to strangers because this is what happens.

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Thus spake Jake32383:

I have no idea what he’s doing. I assume it’s something outside of
Vassal but I don’t really know.

Can you describe what happens?

I just don’t understand why I have to
broadcast my IP to strangers because this is what happens.

Your IP address is not a secret code. You broadcast it to strangers
whenever you do anything on the internet.

You know his IP address, correct? Have you tried complaining to his ISP?

–
J.

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Hi,Jake32383 .I completely agree with uckelman .
The ip address that is visible to others in internet is the public ip address .It is provided by Internet Service Providers(ISP).
If you that person’s ip address , try complaining to his ISP provider about the harassment. To know the ISP of that ip address you can do a IP Search in IP-Details.com and it will show the ISP name ,Location and Country of that Ip address.