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•Created by Golden ball on 9/18/2024 in #support-forum
Potentially fake DayZ servers
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BBattleMetrics
•Created by Golden ball on 9/18/2024 in #support-forum
Potentially fake DayZ servers
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BBattleMetrics
•Created by Golden ball on 9/18/2024 in #support-forum
Potentially fake DayZ servers
Here's some more stuff I learned about this:
The reason the fake servers redirect is because they tell the player to load the DayZed mod (workshop ID 3205805313) which, if I understand correctly, requires the ability to override connection settings to allow joining between servers between different maps (and by default, will redirect to a single "joining" server belonging to them, I guess?)
DayZed (the server the mod is made for, and the server you end up joining) claims in their discord that they don't know who's hosting the fake servers, but claims there's nothing they can do about it (I'm sure there is something)
The servers actually don't seem fake, upon closer inspection. If you don't load the DayZed server mod, but still try to connect to one of these servers, you will start communicating with the game server of the "fake server" instead of only the query port (I had assumed they only had a fake query response set up, since the mod allowed them to redirect the game traffic elsewhere) but the "fake" game server will kick you for a missing mod/PBO.
So these fake servers actually exist, but it's impossible to join the server IP address that is listed because the mod they "require" redirects you to DayZed. It probably still costs the actor a good bit to do this (even though they're using cheap cloud hosting such as DigitalOcean) compared to what I originally thought, since these appear to be legit DayZ servers (but with fake player counts, since their real count is zero, because the mod overriding connection parameters)
The servers query ports seem to exist (across multiple IP addresses I checked) in a pattern, such as:
25811, 25830, 25831, 25850, 25851, 25870, ... which is weird and looks like it was done with automation but not randomness (p=p+1; p=p+19)9 replies
BBattleMetrics
•Created by Golden ball on 9/18/2024 in #support-forum
Potentially fake DayZ servers
9 replies