BO2 Dedicated Zombies Server thru VPN
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Hey guys, I am wanting to host my dedicated zombies server for my friends and some other randoms who live near us. I'm wondering if you're able to see that my server is up & running on your side? It says that my heartbeats are being sent and received successfully, but I've had no luck finding the server in the server-list.
Would appreciate some feedback on what I could possibly do to resolve this,
Some important things to mention; I am running a VPN, Running on a different computer than my main PC (Server build is running Windows Server 2019) & I am trying to do this PREFERABLY without access to a port-forward, is it possible? If not, all understandable.
Thanks in advanced!
hnlk
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Do you route a public IPv4 through your VPN? If not you will have to port forward.
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Xerxes Hey boss man, I don't think so, not too sure... is that what I have to do? Do you think you'd be able to reference me a link to some more info explaining what you recommend on how to do that? or would you explain a bit more? Do I need a static IP? I'll read / look more into it later today.
Gonna be 100% with you, a bit new to all of this, just bought PIA VPN & built a system recently just for this & other perma-server related stuff; but kinda just learning along the way... anything at all would help. I do know a VPN can change your IP depending on what servers are readily available that day, right? I am worried about it changing / switching up needlessly to work with the server. Just trying to set it and forget it kind of deal.
Whatever that you can offer would be greatly appreciated.. thank you again!
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hnlk nah, with your setup you need a vpn that allows port forwarding. PIA does that apparently however it seems that each time you connect to a server with PIA you have to manually request a port and that port will always be random. That means that each time you re-connect your vpn you have to change the port your server runs on to the one PIA assigns to you.
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Dss0 Hey! Ahh, yes. I figured that's how it would work... I am setup thru an IP that has the best latency near me in Panama w/ a port of '45717' that seems to be able to PF, I'm assuming I just replace the '4977' in the StartServer_zm batch file with that port instead?
Testing now to try and see if it works, is there any possible way you'd be able to check for me? It's still saying 'Sending heartbeat... Heartbeat successful.' So I'm under the assumption it's working...? Refreshed list, still unable to see it..
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hnlk heartbeats work without forwarding the port, requesting info (which happens when refreshing the serverlist) and actually playing on it doesn't.
Yes, you replace the port in your batch file with the one your vpn gives you.
I have no idea if PIA opens the port for tcp + udp traffic, the game server needs udp, can't find any info about that on their site.
You may also have to allow incoming traffic on that port in your windows firewall (or just allow general traffic for plutonium-bootstrapper-win32.exe in %localappdata%/Plutonium/bin)
You should see the server on the list, if you don't something isn't working right. -
So this is what I'm looking at currently: have rules set in firewall for Incoming traffic (Inbound) & Outgoing traffic (Outbound) for T6 set on port '45717'. Is this correct? I've also did like you said to allow general traffic for plutonium-bootstrapper-win32.exe... still no luck I think...
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hnlk yea looks fine but we still don't know if the vpn server supports udp, tcp or both types of traffic for port forwarding, you may have to contact customer support on that.
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Dss0 said in BO2 Dedicated Zombies Server thru VPN:
hnlk yea looks fine but we still don't know if the vpn server supports udp, tcp or both types of traffic for port forwarding, you may have to contact customer support on that.
Thanks Dss0, reached out to support.. they kinda just told me that the reason why it wasn't working was because of me running PIA thru Windows Server 2019, and that they don't officially support it yet. Said it could possibly be stopping some stuff from working... oh well.. I guess I'll try to deal with it another way. Hopefully there will be ports forwarded on campus I could use; where this thing will be sitting ultimately.. that way I won't have to run it thru my VPN.
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hnlk hm that's strange, can't think of a technical reason why it would work on win10 but not on server 2019.
You could also rent a vps somewhere and setup your own openvpn server on there but that does require some linux knowledge. -
Dss0 Another question; is it normal for the Client to not be able to open an instance of the Game itself, while hosting the server / having it on?
I keep trying to boot BO2 thru plutonium.exe, it'll make it into the client where I can select the game, but once I click on it, plutonium-bootstrapper-win32.exe opens then closes out with the client... is that normal?
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hnlk said in BO2 Dedicated Zombies Server thru VPN:
Dss0 Another question; is it normal for the Client to not be able to open an instance of the Game itself, while hosting the server / having it on?
I keep trying to boot BO2 thru plutonium.exe, it'll make it into the client where I can select the game, but once I click on it, plutonium-bootstrapper-win32.exe opens then closes out with the client... is that normal?
Figured everything out, did a full-wipe, clean install, properly updated and redirected all my game files, both the client & server work now. Also; figured out the server issues, simply turned off Firewall, everything works! Am able to access my server. Thanks again! Dss0 Xerxes
