[SOLVED] Are these info safe to share?

[Ainez]

Hello,
Gaijin entertainment tech specialist wanted to have connection info like, tracing route to warthunder.com , "ping -t" command etc. Are these info safe to share? Idk if things like default gateway is confidential or not.
Please let me know. Thanks.

 

[bill001g]

To a company generally you can give them any network information. All the ip of the routers in the tracert is public infomation. The ISP that own those routers choose to give you the IP. They can if they want not respond which is why you see * * * in tracert.

Even the IP in hop 2 which is the gateway IP for your router is safe. The IP in hop 1 is your router IP which is a private IP that means nothing.

The only 1 that is any risk is the IP that is assigned to the WAN of your router. This ip is not displayed in a tracert.

Pretty much the only risk you worry about is someone who dislikes you for some reason. The hackers attack all ips so that doesn't matter if you give them out or not.

The most common problem are stupid children who get offended in some video game and then run denial of service attacks against someones home IP. If you have a high speed internet connection it is very hard to denial of service you unless they want to spend lots of money.

Someone might be able to get the city you live in but all the tracking crap by google does that even if you don't give out any information.

The short answer is it is pretty safe in general the only IP you even have some worry about is the one assigned to the wan of your router.

 

[USAFRet]

Gaijin entertainment tech specialist wanted to have connection info

Who contacted who?
What was the issue that started this?

 

[Ainez]

Who contacted who?
What was the issue that started this?

I had technical issues, that needed to be resolved, so I went to the customer support, and the specialist from gaijin contacted me

 

[USAFRet]

I had technical issues, that needed to be resolved, so I went to the customer support, and the specialist from gaijin contacted me

OK.
If they had contacted you with a "problem"...then that would absolutely be suspect.

 

[Ainez]

To a company generally you can give them any network information. All the ip of the routers in the tracert is public infomation. The ISP that own those routers choose to give you the IP. They can if they want not respond which is why you see * * * in tracert.

Even the IP in hop 2 which is the gateway IP for your router is safe. The IP in hop 1 is your router IP which is a private IP that means nothing.

The only 1 that is any risk is the IP that is assigned to the WAN of your router. This ip is not displayed in a tracert.

Pretty much the only risk you worry about is someone who dislikes you for some reason. The hackers attack all ips so that doesn't matter if you give them out or not.

The most common problem are stupid children who get offended in some video game and then run denial of service attacks against someones home IP. If you have a high speed internet connection it is very hard to denial of service you unless they want to spend lots of money.

Someone might be able to get the city you live in but all the tracking crap by google does that even if you don't give out any information.

The short answer is it is pretty safe in general the only IP you even have some worry about is the one assigned to the wan of your router.

Alright. I appreciate your time and well explained reply. Thank you very much bill001g!

 

[Ainez]

OK.
If they had contacted you with a "problem"...then that would absolutely be suspect.

Yes, that would be obviously suspicious, which happened before, but I was careful not to give away any info at all. The ISP once contacted me requesting few info, and to verify if they really were from ISP or not, I asked them various questions like, name of guard at the front door, while there was none etc.

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, that would be obviously suspicious, which happened before, but I was careful not to give away any info at all. The ISP once contacted me requesting few info, and to verify if they really were from ISP or not, I asked them various questions like, name of guard at the front door, while there was none etc.

Obvious, yes.

And yet we've had people here who fell for it.