Multiple IP addresses for a single srcds server

[lhffan]

This is now beeing abused

Have today blacklisted 21 servers with diff ips and diff ports with same players online. It looks like you have 21 full servers but it´s just a nasty redirect workaround

[BehaartesEtwas]

I cannot really imagine an abuse scenario from which someone can actually benefit. regardless of the number of redirections the server will appear only once in the steam master list...

[lhffan]

Yes the server appear only once in the master list. Thats correct. But if you create +20 servers. All of those have different name on the serverlist. But they share players. Exact same players on every of those +20 servers.

I think that's abuse. Because if i join server x. Il still play with my friend that join server y. Then when you want to join it´s big chanse that you are joining that server and play against me and my friend. Because there are normaly simplified
15 servers running that map. Now there are +35 servers. Those extra servers only act as an relay.

[BehaartesEtwas]

that's something different apparently, and I even do not know how that can work... at least not for srcds (with hlds you can do this with some plugin faking players on the dummy servers and doing a redirection - but redirections without confirmation do no longer work on srcds).

[lhffan]

The only thing you need is iptables

I tested it for a couple of days ago. It did NOT work. But i forgot to remove that rule. Today players joining on ip xxxxxxx:27015 and xxxxxx:27035 was mistaklingly playing on same server. Not good. Two teams needed two servers for pcw's :-(

flush iptables and it was normal again.

[BehaartesEtwas]

iptables does not put the redirected ports into the steam master list. and it does not allow different names for the cloned servers.