Just a simple server side mod that adds a mixin to hide your IP when joining a server with this mod installed.
In this day and age where your IP is open in the wild (in logging or whatever) could be used maliciously by the wrong people.
This is more a privacy feature in the server logging to prevent you from being doxxed and that's it. I feel personally this should've been done a long while ago as server admins don't need to know a players IP address when joining a server
This is a very niche of a mod. I know many won't care for this mod as it's only meant for server owners who kinda care about people's privacy.
Yes, you're right. 1.20.2 and beyond already have this option called log-ips in the server.properties file (which, I kinda forgot until someone I knew brought it up again), though would people actually enable this one setting manually? I highly doubt that + mine looks prettier compared to vanilla's approach. But yea, for 1.20.2 and beyond it's not really needed I would say unless you like my style over vanilla's.
Yes, a VPN should be sufficient tho it could make your connection worse when playing.
Yes an IP could be dynamic so a user's IP is not always the same. However, it still could be used to doxx you by the wrong people.
It could, however that's not really the main purpose of this mod as it's meant to be used for server owners and not clients. I could consider making a privacy focused mod however I wouldn't really focus on that until this gains traction and such.
It should work with all of your most favorite server side mods. If not, report it here and I will work on a fix
When sdmim is not installed on the server
When sdmim is installed on the server
It's MIT, check the LICENSE file