Hosting a Local-only Server

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Check it out here: https://docs.northstar.tf/Wiki/

The same page on the new wiki should be located here: https://docs.northstar.tf/Wiki/hosting-a-server-with-northstar/local-only-server

If you just want to host server (listen or dedicated) for people in your local network (as in computer network, not the in-game Networks system), you can simply not enable port-forwarding and set ns_auth_allow_insecure to 1 in the autoexec_ns_server.cfg.

This way players can connect to your server directly by using the connect command with the local IP of your server, e.g. connect 192.168.420.500 (replace with actual local IP of your server).

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