Have you noticed your favorite server dying recently? This new exploit may be to blame.
By using anycast routing, one can setup servers around the world to respond to pings immediately and forwarding any other packets to the real server with software like this https://gitlab.com/Dreae/compressor/ Your server will show up as having 10 ms of ping on every continent but inside the game players will still have 100-200 ping as game packets can't be cached. However, any server using this exploit will still explode to the top of the top server list. As you can see here, the servers using this exploit shot up to #50 and #5 in less than a month. https://cache.gametracker.com/server_info/92.119.148.13:28015 https://cache.gametracker.com/server_info/92.119.148.19:27015 This practice originated in Garry's Mod over a year ago from gmchosting, and has now finally arrived in CS:GO and TF2 through GFL, though there might be other communities using this exploit that I may not have not tracked down. Valve needs to deal with this as soon as possible. It is already killing servers that aren't using it and tricking players into joining servers with bad ping. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/
