Yes. It is very rare these days to be able to change your IP just by resetting your router and modem. They usually lock your whole service to 1 address, and calling them to change it, most of the time they will tell you that they can’t.
TL;DR: An Xbox developer confirmed this issue, so it’s probably safe to stop debating whether it’s possible or not. Blizzard staff also discussed it in another thread.
This is not accurate because your IP is not encrypted in all areas of their platform. An Xbox developer confirmed it is a known P2P issue on this Reddit post:
Hey all, we know this is a problem - we are actually phasing out P2P voice connections for party chat completely which we’ve been working on quite a bit in the background to stop this very problem - Source
Microsoft also has an FAQ related to this issue to cover the responsibility to their users. From their site:
If you play games on Xbox Live, you could experience a denial of service (DoS) or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Such attacks may render your device (your Xbox console or your computer) temporarily unable to connect to the Internet or to Xbox Live. - Source
Taking a modem offline overnight (router shouldn’t matter unless it’s a combo unit) usually assigns a new IP, but that may not hold true for all ISPs or instances where static IPs are being assigned. In those cases, you’d have to contact the ISP and if they can’t help then you’d want to use a VPN to hide your real IP.
I mentioned this here and in the other thread, but for anyone skimming through: the router has to support a VPN setup, or you need to tunnel your connection through a computer, to be able to use a VPN on the Xbox.
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This guy is probably a shill for a hacker group.
ur mid diamond so i dont think id believe a liar
So this is something I’m not knowledgeable in. How do you tell the difference between getting ddosed and just a normal disconnect. I have experienced this alot and always just cop it up to my internet spazing out.
you can’t, unless you’re running pfsense or some kind of enterprise-grade kit like a palo alto, cisco asa, juniper srx, something like that. ddos attacks are designed to just eat up all your available bandwidth or sockets (or both)
it also might not be a ddos, just a regular denial of service attack via syn floods or big chunky ping packet flooding or whatever
From the Microsoft link I provided above:
If your Xbox console experiences a DoS or DDoS attack, you probably won’t be able to connect to Xbox Live from your console, and all Internet connectivity in your household will be down.
If you haven’t been joining party chats with strangers on Xbox, you probably have nothing to worry about. This is especially true if you come back online almost immediately, or don’t disconnect from other services. A DDoS attack would shut down all connectivity, not just the Xbox.
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