edit: or would this just provide a convenient list for DDOSers?
Yes so no IP please ...
The information is out there for anybody to read anyways! just use darkcoind masternode list and there you have the IPs
same goes for the information of the current MN with darkcoind masternode current
Someone could just do the same thing chaeplin has done with darkcoind masternode count here (http://drk.poolhash.org/masternode.html) for a dynamic list of the masternodes.
You can monitor the current masternode for each block and output it on a website. So anyone can see which was the Masternode for which block. Like blockchain.info does with the bitcoin blocks and which pool mined them.
I know but why make it easy for them
I may be wrong, but the daemon itself lists the masternodes, so... not really that stealthy to start off. It would be cool to be able to mask the public IP, no doubt.
But really, whats the problem? remote/local, local authorises server, local goes cold storage - no problem.
My only question is where do the payments to the masternode go with this setup? To the node, or the the local wallet?