Hide or Ban the Server
I have a server listed on your website, and I would like to request a permanent ban of my server's IP from appearing on your site.
My server link: https://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/rust/23138968
If you require proof that I am the owner of the server, please let me know what kind of evidence you need, and I will be happy to provide it.
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Sorry, that's not how battlemetrics works,
If you don't wish your server to appear on websites like battlemetrics you need to stop your server from broadcasting out onto the internet where anyone & everyone is able to gain your servers information.
Even if battlemetrics removes your server, it will auto-reaquire by obtaining your server again off master server lists for games.
Tell me more about these master serverlist please
Most games, Rust included, use the Steam A2S query protocol. As part of that protocol, Steam will communicate with dedicated servers and compile a list of online servers. That list is the "master server list". The master server list is public so that anyone can ask Steam for a list of dedicated servers for a given game. This is how your typical in-game server browser works.
We use the same thing to retrieve a list of servers. If you don't want to have your server public, then don't broadcast it to Steam in the first place.
How do you receive a master list from steam
BM queries it. Same as you would query a server.
It just returns a list of server IP & ports to query.
Is there a way to get the masterlist from steam instead of through bm?
There is, I just don't know it
