Hate to be pushy and seem impatient but these servers have been reported for a few weeks now.
- 173.234.142.122 - 209.22.16.210 - 174.34.172.202 - 173.208.108.250 - 173.208.123.42 - 108.61.31.154 That's taken from this reddit post http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1j6r6x/the_fake_player_problem/ I just counted and it appears there are 92 servers doing this. ElitePowered (http://community.elitepowered.com) is the community behind all of these blank hostname servers. You can verify this through the MOTD. Here is an image of the relevant part from the MOTD source: http://i.imgur.com/nikM45b.png I know one could potentially fake this by creating an elitepowered account with Pinion, but elitepowered has already been known to do this sort of thing. They bought out thebattlegrounds after they got delisted for doing this too. What is Valve doing about this? If servers can make all this money off running multiple advertising networks on their server with fake clients for months before Valve acts then I see no reason why more communities shouldn't be doing it. Here is a screenshot of all the servers in the server browser: http://i.imgur.com/0H8Ifs2.png If you want to verify this, join one of the 16/24 servers and view the output of status/ping. Or you can just watch the obvious bots posing as humans and tricking Quickplay. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
