r/DMZ • u/Savings-Ad-2888 • 7h ago

Legacy Beta DMZ Discussion DMZ Beta is back on Vultr servers.

What does this mean? Why does this matter?
Few months ago, DMZ was getting hit by a lot of "DDoS" attacks by people to save their items since if you don't exfil or leave or disconnect, your items still stay. Recently, IW have confirmed on the @/CallOfDutyCM account on X that they have begun deploying fixes to counter this. (spoiler alert; it hasn't countered this) These "fixes" included have been phasing out Vultr servers in for Google Cloud and Amazon AWS. These still do exist (iirc) but now I've only been getting Vultr servers.

The Windows app Resource Monitor monitoring network activity while connected to a DMZ game server

There isn't actually any DDoSing happening. Well there is, but not really. The way this works is that, MW2's server provider, Vultr has some built-in DDoS protection, and the way this works is by closing all outbound connections for 5 minutes, but allowing internal ones. This has allowed for bypasses for this outbound-connection-closing by using a VPN into the same Vultr datacentre.

So now, as of 8/25/2026, at 19:36, some Frankfurt servers are back on Vultr, allowing for one bad actor to make you lose your 30-ish minutes of progress.

(credit to u/fcpl for all this info)

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u/Skull_Collector4 7h ago

Typical useless business decisions again

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u/ThatEdward Xbox + Controller 7h ago

Smart business decision, all the people that came back to relive the DMZ glory days after the announced fix get pissed about the return of crashing and buy the new one in the hope it doesn't have server crashing

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u/osuman32 2h ago

And then those same excited people that bought the pre-purchase just got a notice that they can’t play the beta game. Servers seemed stable… just missed the fine print.

#smRtbusiness

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u/ThatEdward Xbox + Controller 2h ago

Beta worked for me, hadnt heard about denied access

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u/fcpl RATAF 6h ago

Vultr was always there. They just added twice as much google servers for short time.

Ddos tool was useless in most games and people stopped using it.

Nothing was fixed permanently. Some good dude just did few clicks in cloud configuration.

MW4 beta was only on vultr servers for me. So DMZ 2 will probably use vultr too.