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london50PM
#1
Rust Server showing as offline - recent change to query port(s)
Aug 20, 2015 9:58 PM
Joined: Jan 27, 2015
Posts: 1
Greetings,

My trackers / server banners are showing that my server is dead/offline.

You can check out the server page here:

http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/217.163.10.18:28016/


I know that Facepunch have changed the query port this week as detailed below:

"Garry

Query Port

Not a big change to the end user, but this needed a lot of back-end coding. When you run a Rust server you have two ports open: one port for player to join the game and to communicate with the server on; one for Steam to talk to, to get information about the server.

The problem is that there’s a common denial of service attack that floods the query port. This is getting more and more common and lots of hosts are complaining about it.

So now we accept the query on the game port instead, and pass it to Steam ourselves. This means we can stand in the middle and just not reply if we’re being flooded. This wasn’t a trivial thing to set up, it involved adding a bunch of functionality to Raknet, so I’m hoping it does some good." - www.playrust.com

Is this something I need to update myself or something that gametrackers will update ?

Cheers

Mr Bubs
visagalisPM
#2
Aug 21, 2015 7:07 AM
Joined: Aug 05, 2015
Posts: 2
i'm experiancing same problem too.

https://twitter.com/RustUpdates/status/633590807891705856

Btw, rust-servers have same problem, so i opened a ticket, and they responded:
Ok so it is up to us to fix the problem.
We will work on it very quickly.
burnPM
#3
Aug 21, 2015 8:08 AM
Joined: Sep 27, 2006
Posts: 10924
When the server is offline, you can go to the page you claimed the server on and adjust the query port http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/217.163.10.18:28016/manage/
I am retired from GameTracker after 11 years and will not be responsive for support requests.