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DNS Slider

This unique feature will help in the following cases:

  1. DDOS attacks, network issues.
  2. You want to bind your game client to a DNS address for connections to the login server and/or game server. In case of an IP address change, no patch modification will be required.

What Active Anticheat Will Do

  1. Active Anticheat will retrieve all IP addresses from your DNS using the player's default name servers, as well as various global and regional NS servers. This ensures that all IP addresses are obtained, even in countries like China. Active Anticheat will also clear the DNS cache as needed.
  2. Active Anticheat will attempt to connect to your AA server using each of these IP addresses until a connection is established.
  3. Active Anticheat will check ip address health by exchanging traffic with the AA server in both directions. In case of an error, it returns to step 2 (this is very important, as during DDOS attacks, the connection is often established, but breaks during the data exchange stage).
  4. After a successful connection and data exchange, the IP address is considered optimal for the player. Active Anticheat can then use it to connect to the login server and game server (at your discretion).

What You Need to Do

  1. Ensure that your license is bound to a DNS address, not an IP address.
  2. Add one or more IP addresses to your DNS as A records, and set the TTL value as low as possible, e.g., 120 (2 minutes of caching). All proxies must have AA server public port open ( 11000 by default )
  3. If your login server is hosted on the same machine as the Active Anticheat server, set the value of loginserveraddress in anticheat.xml to AA:2106 (where 2106 is your login server port).
  4. If your game server is hosted on the same machine as the Active Anticheat server, set the value of gameserver in anticheat.xml to AA:7777 (where 7777 is your game server port). Note! If you have a proxy slider for game servers, we do not recommend setting AA:7777! It is better for the player to select a proxy from the list of game servers based on ping. In this case, instead of AA:7777, set ip_address:7777 for one of the addresses. One is enough; you do not need to specify all proxies in anticheat.xml.
  5. Keep the list of IP addresses in your DNS up to date.