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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,391habitat unknownfirst seen 19 Sep 2026

nameserver

Offline 178.177.237.8:28015 checked 38d ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 15
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,391
no region published
Last wipe
39d 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep21 Sep22 Sep24 Sep25 Sep26 Sep
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?

The last seven days of player hours place nameserver at #15,391, within the top – of all ranked servers.

How busy is nameserver?

We have no live count for nameserver right now. It was last seen 38 days 13 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on nameserver mean?

What the game's server browser reads from nameserver is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp15 (Max players): The server has 15 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2633 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join; cs164530 (Build): Game build: 164530; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made; you will find them at the top of this page.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include nameserver?

nameserver appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. Filter the server list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more and it will show up.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on nameserver?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of nameserver's wipes are on record. 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 39 days 6 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does nameserver run?

A procedural map, generated by the game, is in use on nameserver.

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. This server runs survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is not running.

Server details

Which version of Rust does nameserver run?

On Windows, nameserver runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is nameserver online, and how reliable is it?

We last saw nameserver 38 days 13 hours ago, and it is offline now. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. On 19 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is nameserver located?

No region is published by nameserver. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You will find it at 178.177.237.8:28015.

Getting in

How do I join nameserver?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 178.177.237.8:28015. 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?,v2633,gmrust,cs164530,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp15
Max players The server has 15 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2633
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2633, to join.
cs164530
Build Game build: 164530.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

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.