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(cod4) cracked servers and their pb "issues"

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Ninjaman Rookie

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Wonder if COD4 is coming...

 

The sad thing is: This has happened 2 weeks and 2 days ago already. I don't understand why they have still not removed this game from their website. All masterservers are already terminated for 2 weeks. Unofficially support for CoD4 has dropped as well. Still they did not made it official. I can not understand why. EvenBalance's customer support behaves very strange in this manner.

 

Unfortunately PunkBuster's cheat detection and detection of modified gamefiles is crippled without the masterserver. Maybe this is on purpose ? No idea.

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SuperTaz Grand Master

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Just saying I got the answer that CoD4 is still supported by EvenBalance. What I still can't understand why are EB-Masterservers for CoD4 offline ?

 

They still show online on my COD4 server.

 

 

[12.12.2013 18:51:58] Master Query Sent to (MASTER6.EVENBALANCE.COM) 50.62.76.68

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[12.12.2013 18:51:58] Master Query Sent to (MASTER6.EVENBALANCE.COM) 50.62.76.68



Haha. This does not require a master server to show up.


 


But where is: "Master Security Informations Received" ?


 


Anyway the real story seems the old master server is still alive but they have broken their PunkBuster DNS.

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Haha. This does not require a master server to show up.

 

But where is: "Master Security Informations Received" ?

 

Anyway the real story seems the old master server is still alive but they have broken their PunkBuster DNS.

 

 

Look in the pb log files of the server. You should see the same thing.

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BuLLsh1T77 Experienced

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Don't know, this still looks good i think

 

[12.14.2013 23:18:26] Attempting to resolve master6.evenbalance.com
[12.14.2013 23:18:26] Resolved to [119.81.16.194]

 

update command goes to same IP so i think they haven't pulled (all) masterservers yet

 

 

 

just to be sure i wrote a ticket to EB asking about the issue

 

Looking at Ninjaman's statement about master security information I decided to plow a few logs for it and just found that the last time  this message was last showing up in logs on Dec 5th.. so who knows.

 

    Line 33381: [12.04.2013 23:41:21] Received Master Security Information
    Line 33591: [12.05.2013 00:01:21] Received Master Security Information
    Line 33979: [12.05.2013 00:21:21] Received Master Security Information
    Line 34264: [12.05.2013 00:41:21] Received Master Security Information
    Line 34586: [12.05.2013 01:12:49] Received Master Security Information
    Line 36187: [12.05.2013 12:07:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 36591: [12.05.2013 12:27:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 37026: [12.05.2013 12:47:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 37539: [12.05.2013 13:07:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 38111: [12.05.2013 13:27:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 38618: [12.05.2013 13:47:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 39046: [12.05.2013 14:07:07] Received Master Security Information
    Line 39571: [12.05.2013 14:27:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 39873: [12.05.2013 14:47:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 40351: [12.05.2013 15:07:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 40649: [12.05.2013 15:27:07] Received Master Security Information
    Line 41272: [12.05.2013 15:47:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 41860: [12.05.2013 16:07:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 42530: [12.05.2013 16:27:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 43290: [12.05.2013 16:47:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 44181: [12.05.2013 17:07:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 45069: [12.05.2013 17:27:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 45606: [12.05.2013 17:47:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 46455: [12.05.2013 18:07:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 47175: [12.05.2013 18:27:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 47985: [12.05.2013 18:47:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 48325: [12.05.2013 19:07:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 48711: [12.05.2013 19:27:08] Received Master Security Information
    Line 49308: [12.05.2013 19:47:08] Received Master Security Information

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Ninjaman Rookie

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I have discovered the whole thing breaks when you did run pb_sv_update and got a response from COD41.EVENBALANCE.COM you receive a list of new IP addresses. All the new hosts sending Connection Refused as answers.

However even the old COD41.EVENBALANCE.COM does not send the files 1828.pat and 1828.pbq. Cod4 pb servers asks for. You can examine it with Wireshark.

Anyway finally EB admit that they have a problem.

Creating a ban appeal of an recent EB Violation makes it clear that there is a problem. Because they have no log files ^^

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Answer from EB is that they still support COD4. As Alex put it, it depends on whether or not the publisher/developer wants it, which makes sense since they're paying for it. So i guess you could say that whether or not EB supports a game doesn't matter when the developer/publisher of that game decides to pull the plug.

I asked him to jump in this thread so he could see the discussion and maybe answer some questions about for instance

'Received Master Security Information' entries missing in the logs as of late.

 

as I received the last one on december 5th: Line 49308: [12.05.2013 19:47:08] Received Master Security Information

 

maybe there are some more COD4 admins willing to plow their logs of the last few weeks and see if they experience the same thing?

Just search Received Master Security Information in the logs and see if and when you received this message for the last time.

If it's something affecting all of us I'd reckon you should have similar messages around the same time.

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So I will post some of our ticket links.

 

 

Here you can see a typical ticket getting rather ignored than answering on it.

 

http://www.evenbalance.com/troubleticket/update_ticket.php?ticketnumber=EB9065000719868&password=c3d9aa6acdba8afc654cbaa44f32ec

 

 

Their usual response is now to copy and paste you the text about PBSetup. They tell you even about PBSetup if you have asked them something quite different.

 

http://www.evenbalance.com/troubleticket/update_ticket.php?ticketnumber=EB3858000721149&password=6967cb16dc9e45946003cac5b0e0a8

The DNS server is for some days now online again. But it provides wrong IPs / unreachable CoD4 masters.

 

 

I had assumed this one will be ignored as well. but I was wrong...

Now they finally admit that their software is not working. But still nobody is going to repair that :S

I don't know anymore what I have to think.

 

http://www.evenbalance.com/troubleticket/update_ticket.php?ticketnumber=EB9655000722330&password=823c89fbfbe3dab627ecf7e057996f

 

No logfiles. How can they even get them ???

http://www.evenbalance.com/troubleticket/update_ticket.php?ticketnumber=EB7304000723179&password=b97c733d7d228a00ce4c79c59f759a

 

 

 

Anyway I'm very sure EvenBalance know about this fault and I'm 100% sure there is a fault. You can check it by running a CoD4 server on your computer and running Wireshark. Filter for "udp.port == 28962 || icmp". You will see all requests to the PB-Masterservers getting answered with the ICMP Port unreachable message.

 

So I'm fed up now. I have deactivated PunkBuster for CoD4 on my servers now as it is now self punk.

If it ever returns to normal operation I will active it again but like it is now: nope.

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just a sidenote of possible future interest: You will be entirely ignored if you mention either specific cheats/hacks, or even better: their detection status - in a ticket.

 

"you do not tell what is detected. if you do, you will tell what is not detected. telling what is not detected is just being unaware or lying"

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#1 Bye bye PunkBuster - It will never return!

#2 Make sure next time to which publisher you spend your money.

 

#3 This case is now for me finally closed...

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Just to add this:


 


Well in earlier times unavailable masterservers at EvenBalance had the effect, that your server became crippled in cheat detection only when you have restarted your server. This time this event was far different. All CoD4 servers suddenly stopped at the same time with detection. So obviously this time on 25th of November 2013 to all GameServers a remote PB-Shutdown command was sent.


 


You will maybe wonder why I know so exactly if EvenBalance masterservers are working or not.


Now I can tell as it won't harm anymore anyway as this feature won't gets removed as well.


 


PunkBuster had still inside a working functionality to issue an "Global PunkBuster Hardware GUID Ban".


The hashed hardware id strings of every player could be read from the PBSV.SO process memory. We have used this strings to authorize players onto an cracked server. This gave us Non-cracked server equivalent security.


However this does not work as soon as the PunkBuster masterservers were not available on server startup. This time this authorization system did stop on 80 CoD4 servers suddenly on the same time! This was on 25th of November 2013 at ~7.30 o'clock GMT+1.


 


Then I did check with some cheats to have something to argue with EvenBalance and on GGC-Stream and this site about this issue.

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Benway Grand Master

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finally: * off topic spammage split off "COD:WaW Support" *

 

... to authorize players onto an cracked server.

#2 Make sure next time to which publisher you spend your money.

Now you are entertaining.

 

 

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PS: this topic was split off 'PB Drops COD:WaW Support' and should stay open for cod4-pb related issues;

 

Reconsiderations:

- if you are looking for somebody who cares about cracked servers (we don't) get a room (whatever warez forum of your choice)

- cracked servers are neither supported by evenbalance, no matter how good, bad or Not the game may be supported

- last time i checked cod4 was still pb supported,

PB has a startup fee plus monthly operation fees.

Conclusion:

if you want a topic about real issues of legit cod4 servers with pb and/or streaming, open a new one. Note http://www.pbbans.com/forums/cracked-servers-t89615.html

 

 

 

#3 This case is now for me finally closed ...

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