Okay. All player ran servers require APPROVAL from the dev of Day Z before they will be allowed on the network. No modification of the game is allowed. Your friend wasn't playing on any Day Z server I have ever seen before. I've been on several and plenty of other people I know have been on a lot more. No one has ever heard of them being screwed up to the point where anything major in the game was changed like that.
That's weird since you know.. A) you can't be resurrected every time you respawn you are in a random location in the map.
What game was your brother playing?
Reading this post was actually a struggle. Like, a real fucking struggle. My eyes were hurting and my mind was telling me to stop but I went on. I got through it. I read everything you wrote.
I understood none of it.
No? The hell is wrong with you. GET IT NOW.
Day Z is a zombie survival mod for ARMA 2. It's the greatest ever. Don't believe me? Your loss.
If any of you wonderful people are already playing it you should totally meet up with the rest of us that are playing and not kill us and take all our shit.
It's easy to add it yourself. You just throw it in the mods folder. Now make all the users who want to play on your server do the same and let me know how that goes.
Your friend should be posting a bug report (in the bug section, in the proper format) so that we can no a bit more about what is going on because it sounds like it's client side.