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Dynamic DNS
atomicspark:
Since I know you all are a bunch of witty folk, I was wondering if you could help me with something. I currently have dynamic domain name set up at home with DDNS. Which dynamic DNS service do you guys use and what are its benefits?
Basically, I want to have a subdomain on my website pointing towards my dynamic IP. I'm guessing I'll just set up my subdomain to point towards my DDNS domain name. Seems kind of silly but as far as I know that would be the only way to do it. :-\
This way I don't have some dumb forced domain name for my dynamic dns and I could possibly have the servers listed as such: server1.atomicsparkonline.net, server2.atomicsparkonline.net, etc. All subdomains will point to another public IP:Port.
--- Quote ---SubDomain Redirection
server1.atomicsparkonline.net is currently being redirected to http://66.43.207.66:27015/
--- End quote ---
I set up a test for my static, current server. Does that look correct? It told me to "be sure to end with a trailing / on the end of the url." Silly trailing slash rules.
JamminR:
Here's the challenge... it seems the DDNS service you are using will only attempt to redirect HTTP requests.
If I type in my browser server1.atomicsparksonline.net, it attempts to connect me to the IP address you have listed there. 66.43.207.66, which times out/fails because web browser's don't 'speak' Steam protocol.
However, if I do a name server lookup on server1.atomicsparksonline.net .. it returns a totally different ip address, the one of the name server.
Perhaps it might work, but, I'm not sure it would if using steam. I'll try here in a few.
--- Code: --->nslookup server1.atomicsparkonline.net
Server: EyeSpyNets
Address: 192.168.1.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: server1.atomicsparkonline.net
Address: 67.15.250.6
--- End code ---
A reverse lookup of that IP address shows the DDNS server, I think.
--- Code: --->nslookup 67.15.250.6
Server: EyeSpyNet
Address: 192.168.1.1
Name: ns1.siteground133.com
Address: 67.15.250.6
--- End code ---
JamminR:
Nope.
Didn't think so.
--- Code: ---] connect server1.atomicsparkonline.net
Connecting to server1.atomicsparkonline.net...
Retrying server1.atomicsparkonline.net...
Retrying server1.atomicsparkonline.net...
Retrying server1.atomicsparkonline.net...
Connection failed after 4 retries.
--- End code ---
Adding server1.atomicsparkonline.net:27015 to my Favorites manually gets 'no response' attempting to talk to IP 67.15.250.6, the redirect name server of your DDNS (I think).
You'd need to find a DDNS service that won't just redirect html requests, but, allow you to redirect all traffic to the ip you have.
atomicspark:
I didn't go through DDNS for the test. I just added server1 to my subdomains (server1.atomicsparkonline.net) and changed the redirect to to the ip:port of my game server. I figured that it might not work since it had http:// in the redirect url. I'm going to send a support ticket to siteground and they can tell me if this is possible.
Huh, when I went back to remove the trailing slash (to see if that would fix it) I was able to remove the http: protocol. So now it reads,
--- Quote ---SubDomain Redirection
server1.atomicsparkonline.net is currently being redirected to 66.43.207.66:27015/
--- End quote ---
JamminR:
If they don't force http:// in front of your redirect, might try steam://connect/server1.atomicsparkonline.net:27015/
However, that might still only work in browsers.
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