How to know IP of the official server

[Kells]

Hey guys, my provider asked me to do a tracing/ping to the game server, cause i have loss in the game, but I don't know how to know it. Command "status" doesn't show IP after a recent update. Are there other ways to know IP?

[Kells]

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[Komrade]

Originally posted by Kells:

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[Agent-r00tk1t]

You can't know the IP of the server. But, luckily for you that doesn't actually matter for what your ISP wants to know.

The reason is because you don't actually connect to the official servers, you connect to a "steam datagram relay" node. Then valve forward it within their own network to the server. This was apparently to cut down on DDoS (if no-one knows the server IP, or the player IP, or which relay cluster a player is connected to, it makes the DDoS process pretty much a lot harder).

So, how to find out the relay cluster node IP? That's quite easy. When you exit a game a load of text will be dumped to the console. One of those lines will be like this:

Primary router: xxx#nn (1.2.3.4:270xx) Ping = 1+2=3 (front+back=total)

xxx will be the relay cluster (they are mostly identified by airport IATA codes). #nn is presumably the node within the cluster (no idea if it is or not, it's my guess). What you want is the number in the brackets, which I made 1.2.3.4. There will be a number here, and that will be the datagram node you're connected to.

[Vaulty]

lower your rate in console but don't go below 128000

EDIT:
You can also yell at your ISP and say you are losing packets, it will make them check what's wrong on their end :>

[Agent-r00tk1t]

Just out of interest, are you getting loss on net_graph, but only since the last update over the weekend?

[Kells]

Originally posted by Agent-r00tk1t:

Just out of interest, are you getting loss on net_graph, but only since the last update over the weekend?

Yea, I gettin loss on net_graph every day on every server (ranked, dm, public), but not since the last update. I know that this is the problem of my provider, so i needed some of ip's to show 'em tracert info (winmtr).

[Agent-r00tk1t]

Originally posted by Kells:

Originally posted by Agent-r00tk1t:

Just out of interest, are you getting loss on net_graph, but only since the last update over the weekend?

Yea, I gettin loss on net_graph every day on every server (ranked, dm, public), but not since the last update. I know that this is the problem of my provider, so i needed some of ip's to show 'em tracert info (winmtr).

Ah, OK. If it was only since Friday evening then I would have said it's the same thing I have. Downright annoying, but not an ISP problem as such.

If it's an ongoing problem, then roll with that relay IP you got and send them the trace results. And of course, good luck.

[Obi]

enable steam overlay and check it in top right corner when in a match. just open ur overlay and it will tell you what server u connected too and the server ping