Mameshiba

I haven't played Dayz in about half a year, today I decided to play again. Surprisingly my character is still there, with almost all of the gear there was, including GPS, Rangerfinder, NVG etc. Since I haven't followed DayZ at all for the past few months, I do not know if anything of that got removed and if I could get banned for having it. Now my question, do I have to/should delete him or is there no risk in playing him? And if so how should I do it?

Whenever I am looking for servers some of them only appear as a red 'x',sometimes up to 2/3 rd of the servers don't show up. But when I select one of these server they will appear as normal and I can even join almost all of them and play on them without problems. Every now and then I get the 'connection failed' eventhough a friend could join it. But its still very annoing if I want to play on a specific server because I have to click through every server manualy that did not load until I find the right one.