Insurgency: Sandstorm (Dedicated Server) Ports: UDP 27102

What ports does Insurgency: Sandstorm (Dedicated Server) use?

Insurgency: Sandstorm (Dedicated Server) listens on UDP 27102. That is what has to reach the machine you're configuring: the port forward on its router, and what the firewall prompt on first launch is asking for.

  • UDP 27102 — inbound, to the machine running the server.

If that machine is your own PC, you can skip the port forward: in Checkpoint64, Checkpoint Connect shares the running server with your team, and they join directly when they can and through a relay when they can't.

Ports are the half of hosting that happens on the router. The other half is on disk — the rule set this server reads at startup, kept in its config folder, which nothing else holds a copy of. Checkpoint64 backs that folder up automatically and keeps every version, so rebuilding the box doesn't mean rebuilding the config. And if keeping it running stops being worth it, a small group can pass one world between them instead: the dedicated server alternative guide walks through it.

Common questions

What ports does Insurgency: Sandstorm (Dedicated Server) use?

Insurgency: Sandstorm (Dedicated Server) listens on UDP 27102. That is the port to forward to the machine running it, and to allow through its firewall — or, when it runs on your own PC, share it with your team through Checkpoint Connect in Checkpoint64 and nobody forwards anything. The server's own files — the rule set it reads at startup — stay on that machine, and Checkpoint64 backs them up automatically and keeps every version, so rebuilding the server doesn't mean rewriting the config.