I’m actually making this post just to provide maybe one extra google result for users that search for it.
So, I happen to notice a bunch of requests coming from this IP to my firewall, via UDP. I have long had it blocked, but finally got more curious today, probably at least a year after I added the IP to my block lists.
So, the IP actually belongs to a company in Ohio, which was weird, because I am also based in Ohio.
I reached out to the CIO of the company, not expecting much — and he’s none other than the developer of QTracker, Ron Mercer! No wonder this IP was trying to scan me, it was wondering why it couldn’t see my Quake 2 servers anymore!
Ron is absolutely incredible, he’s added a reverse DNS entry for the IP which now resolves to a qtracker.com domain.
So again, 63.239.170.8 is not malicious, it’s just trying to help us preserve as much Quake as possible.
Huge shout out to Ron, thank you for your time on this matter.