Dedicated BMS Server (I have questions)
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@airtex2019 that’s the plan (the same as my 6 DCS servers) to be up 24/7. The DCS ones are already up however, this one is up I just haven’t figured out the last part yet.
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@Smack I’m sorry but you’re trying to do things that just cannot work.
Cloudflare cannot work with game hosting.
Especially with BMS that uses UDP.
You have to expose the server public IP somehow…
I still don’t understand why you obstinate to use cloudflare…
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@Smack what worked for DCS? is it because it’s TCP not UDP?
did you find out answer to your original Q … do the BMS and IVC clients do DNS lookups, or do they require you to enter a raw numerical IP?
I’m curious to learn what’s possible. Sounds like there are gaming VPNs for very low cost, that allow port-forwarding. In theory, if you wanted, you could use AWS Route 53 or Cloudflare’s DNS zone management, to point a domain-name to your VPN address. (But unless you can make a CNAME alias … it might be a pain to keep in sync with VPN address, which will change from time to time.)
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@airtex2019 There is also something to take into account…
Not sure how BMS reacts on DNS resolution and IPv4 / IPv6…
In theory, as a host, you have to decide if you run IPv6 or IPv4…
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@airtex2019 I run my own server rack which is why I don’t want to use a PAID service such as aws etc. I run an Arma Reforger server and Arma 3 server 6 DCS servers (and a test dcs server) along with a bms server (currently running in a vm).
If I expose the wan IP of my BMS server (and connect on local machines using my servers local IP) it works flawlessly. All my servers are up 24/7 again another reason why I don’t want to host them externally.
All of these servers I have proxied through cloudflare so I know it DOES work.
BMS at present seems to be the only server that doesn’t and it appears that the game itself (doesn’t like anything other than numerical IP address) I know that my domain is reachable from the outside of my network as I’m able to ping bmsserver.mmunraid.net , which in turn obviously resolves to the cloudflare IP thats it’s proxied (whilst masking my own WAN IP).
Pretty sure it’s just not possible to connect to BMS servers via domain names at this point. Probably due to the nature of it’s P2P based network setup.
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@Smack said in Dedicated BMS Server (I have questions):
All my servers are up 24/7 again another reason why I don’t want to host them externally.
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I am lost on this point as another reason… maybe I’m taking something out of context or misunderstanding the point. I manage the dedicated server(s) for our online group (externally, in Germany and Kansas, USA), they all remain up 24/7 … OS so stable it can run all year without a restart (if everyone was away/busy with life), though we typically do Spring and Fall cleanup/updates/restarts.
Sorry to hear about the lack of success using a domain name… been following along in this thread hoping you could find a solution. Even for “neat” factor, it would be nice to share a domain as the means to tell the public how to connect rather than a dry old numeric IP address, or (ick!) an IPv6 address.
Best wishes whatever route you decide on, and good luck with your servers!!
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@SemlerPDX what host provider do you guys use? what’s the dollar cost, for a 24x7 BMS server? I’m sure you’ve mentioned it before but I can’t remember.
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@airtex2019 Our BMS server is provided by a member, the datacenter is in Kansas, not sure of the costs - I think he works there. Our dedicated game server is with Hetzner, and is located in Nuremberg, DE - it’s a 16 core with 64GB of ECC RAM and 2TB NVMe in RAID for around $105/month, has a dedicated gigabit network, and hosts around 20 game servers (some spin up for events, others stay on 24/7 like PR and several Arma 3 servers). I pay a little extra for Windows Server 2019, not everyone on the team is proficient with Linux unfortunately, so it’s a quality of life thing to help spread the workload to more able bodies. OT, we host our website out of droplets along the East coast of USA through Digital Ocean.
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