Today I tried to find out which external servers the PS5 connects to for the online game Battlefield 6.
A program for monitoring network traffic (an analogue of Wireshark / network sniffer) was installed on the computer. The console itself was connected via Wi-Fi, which was distributed from the computer.
The goal: to intercept packets from PS5 to see the IP addresses of the external servers it is trying to connect to.
During the program, I recorded several external IP addresses to which PS5 tried to connect:
18.96.53.73,
13.42.14.22,
104.69.222.203,
54.197.155.195 and more….
Some addresses responded correctly, packets came without errors.
- Other addresses did not respond, and the program recorded timeout ((checked through the command line)).
- I found out that the reason for the lack of response is not in PS5, but in blocking or filtering traffic on the side of the Internet provider.
Here is a list of specific external IP addresses that I recorded today and that did not respond when trying to connect PS5:
- 104.69.222.203
- 54.197.155.195
These addresses tried to get packages from PS5, but timeout was recorded in the logs - no answers came.
At the same time, other addresses, such as 13.42.14.22, answered correctly (TCP/UDP connection was established without problems).
It was on these three IPs that I came to the conclusion that the connection is blocked or filtered on the provider's side.
—- 104.69.222.203
- Owner: Akamai Technologies
- Used for: Content delivery and cloud services
- Note: Akamai provides content delivery services and can be involved in the infrastructure of game services.
—- 54.197.155.195
- Owner: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Used for: Cloud computing and hosting
- Note: AWS provides cloud services, including hosting game servers.