I’ve been trying to get a dedicated server going for Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 4, RUST, various older games that support it. It’s been going well doing local testing as I can connect via network. Mods are downloading and running fine. However, we’re having some difficulty making it to the internet and/or server lists. Ports are being forwarded and actually tried a direct-to-modem connection and still missing something.
We want to use a dedicated unused box at home due to hardware availability and costs. Anyone have general ideas about how to reach the server lists?
Host box is a z590 w/ 10900KF, 16GB DDR4-2250, and Samsung 970 Pro on native Win10.
A lot of the time you need to forward the ports on the host system and on your firewall/router. For linux you’ll need to run sudo ufw allow port number/tcp or udp. Windows can be done via windows firewall.
Beyond that you may need to forward more than one set of ports. Example for rust: UDP 28015 = default server + query/list
TCP 28016 = default RCON
If the above doesn’t fix this your local ISP may be blocking those ports. You can attempt to reach out to them and they might be willing to forward. I’d also recommend using a dynamic dns so it can be easier for players on the server to reconnect as most public IP’s provided by ISP’s will change at random.