Somebody obtained my IP-address in Black Ops 2 Multiplayer

[Gelderländer]

Just an hour ago I was playing Black Ops 2 Multiplayer and during a teamdeathmatch somebody(Forgot about his name) just showed my computers IP-address in a comment.
The questions I got on my mind right now are:

- How could he possibly obtain a player's ip-address while he was playing in the same match himselve? (very fascinating though)

- What are the possible consequences now he knows my IP-address?
- What should I do now somebody has this information about me?

If somebody knows an answer on these questions, please tell me. I would really appreciate it.

thanks a lot

[McKay]

I don't know anything about Black Ops 2, but were you hosting the game? If you were then he probably used WireShark or something to look at the destination IP of the information that his game is exchanging with yours.

If not, then it's entirely possible that Black Ops 2 leaks your IP in another way.

Either way, he can't really do anything harmful. He can see what city you live in and if you really pissed him off he could theoretically DDoS you (basically just knocking out your Internet access for a time) but he can't do any real damage.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Knowing your IP means basically nothing. Even on basic BB forums the moderators can see IP adresses. So obtaining such info is easy and some "nerds" whos skill starts and ends with pushing the ON button on the PC case, trying to show off their "hacker skills" with this.

[Gelderländer]

Thanks a lot for your answers. About that DDos attack you(Dr. Mckay) are talking about, I have a router which claims that it has protection against these
DDos attacks but is it an effective solution? What I heard about DDos Attacks is that there still isn't any reliable protection against it, but I might be wrong there.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by gtx780i7-daan:

Thanks a lot for your answers. About that DDos attack you(Dr. Mckay) are talking about, I have an ASUS RT-AC68U router which ASUS claims that it has protection against these
DDos attacks but is it an effective solution? What I heard about DDos Attacks is that there still isn't any reliable protection against it, but I might be wrong there.

I shouldn't worry about it. You're not likely to get DDoSed.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by gtx780i7-daan:

Thanks a lot for your answers. About that DDos attack you(Dr. Mckay) are talking about, I have an YUM YUM YUM router which YUM YUM YUM claims that it has protection against these
DDos attacks but is it an effective solution? What I heard about DDos Attacks is that there still isn't any reliable protection against it, but I might be wrong there.

you have nearly no protection on enduser level, if you have hardware that can deal with that (no router can), you have enterprise level stuff that costs money and that has to be configured on nerd level .. and even then if they really wanna see you down, they attack your node entry point on which you have no access at all, you need a little bit more power on the attack and this might shut down other stuff, but who would care about casualties.

little hint, you're talking about personal attacks over ip against you on a public forum, remove your routermodel.

depending on your type of provider and internet setup, a simple power off/power on your equipment might already change your ip address. some can be changed through changing the first client ( or changing the macaddress of the first client), some might have a webinterface, like mine, to do that, others need to be contacted.