As far as I know, Source doesn't use DNS at all, it's completely 
IPv4-address-based. Lookups are done at connect time or adding-to-favourites 
time, completely by the client. There's no official or unofficial way to do 
HTTP-style vhosting as far as I am aware.

On 17/08/2012, at 9:19 AM, T Marler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why would I want to vhost the default port?
> 
> I want to vhost so I can host multiple servers on the same IP without people 
> having to memorize ports.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kyle Sanderson <[email protected]>
> Date: Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:26 pm
> Subject: Re: [hlds] srcds vhosting
> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list 
> <[email protected]>
> 
> > Host A records map hostnames to IP Addresses. I don't believe 
> > you can
> > specify ports.
> > 
> > What you'd probably end up doing is subdomain.lanified.com:65535 
> > . If
> > you're using the default port (27015) your clients could just 
> > type in
> > `connect subdomain.lanified.com`.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Kyle.
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:59 PM, T Marler 
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > So if I make an A record for a subdomain, example:
> > >
> > > subdomain.lanified.com -> record type A -> 255.255.255.255:65535
> > >
> > > it will direct traffic accessing that (sub)domain to that 
> > specific port?
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Dan Offord <[email protected]>
> > > Date: Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:29 pm
> > > Subject: Re: [hlds] srcds vhosting
> > > To: [email protected], Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
> > > <[email protected]>
> > >
> > >> > As in, subdomains or domains resolving to specific ports.
> > >>
> > >> You mean SRV support? (
> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record )
> > >>
> > >> I don't think srcds/goldsrc engine currently support it, it's a
> > >> would be
> > >> nice feature :)
> > >>
> > >> One thing you could do, is set an A record on the domain and do:
> > >> tf2.mygameserver.com:27015
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >>
> > >> Dan Offord
> > >>
> > >> Technical Systems Administrator
> > >>
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> > >> Southampton, Hampshire, SO45 1XR
> > >>
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> > >>
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> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 16 August 2012 19:53, T Marler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Has anyone figured out a nice way to vhost srcds? Preferably
> > >> in Linux of
> > >> > course.
> > >> >
> > >> > As in, subdomains or domains resolving to specific ports.
> > >> >
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