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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,691habitat unknownfirst seen 4 Oct 2026

nameserver

Offline 176.97.128.102:28015 checked 23d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 15
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,691
top 69%
Last wipe
24d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k4 Oct5 Oct7 Oct8 Oct10 Oct11 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does nameserver rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,691 for player hours, which puts nameserver in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

nameserver is offline at this count; we last saw it 23 days 11 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on nameserver mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags nameserver publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp15 (Max players): 15 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: at most 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join; cs166652 (Build): Game build: 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include nameserver?

nameserver appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on nameserver?

Too few wipes are on record for nameserver to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world it runs now dates from 24 days 11 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does nameserver run?

The map on nameserver is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on nameserver?

No gather rate appears in the name of nameserver. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

On Windows, nameserver runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Is nameserver online, and how reliable is it?

Currently offline, nameserver was last seen 23 days 11 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Population on 4 October 2026.

Where is nameserver located?

No region is published by nameserver. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 176.97.128.102:28015.

How to join

How do I join nameserver?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 176.97.128.102:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp15,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp15
Max players 15 slots are available.
ts8
Group limit This is the game default: at most 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2634, to join.
cs166652
Build Game build: 166652.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.