Does no one seem to understand that there is a downside is on using DNS?
The clients need to resolve each DNS entry before the server can get queried,
this takes time, not to mention that DNS servers might have defense mechanisms
at work such as throttling the amount of incoming requests from one user.
Relying on external DNS servers to do this is just not the way to go.
VALVe has created exactly what we´ve been requesting all those years. A system
where we can retain our servers in clients favorites after they have been
moved. Who really cares what mechanisms are at work here to reach that goal?
Saint K.
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andre Müller
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 4:11 PM
To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds] Advertise a server using account ID
Someone made an improvment sugestion years ago about the srv entry in dns for a
serverport. So we don't need valves proprietary protocol if they are realizing
that there are existing technologies we can use. The only change is on
clientside to save DNS in favourites and lookup for a srv record for a
domain/subdomain. It is also compatible with ipv6. So I can't understand why
they aren't doing this easy change. It's better for serveradmins and players.
Greetings
Andre Müller
2014-03-05 15:30 GMT+01:00 Nomaan Ahmad <[email protected]>:
I also use subdomains for each IP address I have at the moment.
This method is not close to being perfect for client use. Its only good for me
as server own as I don't need to remember IP address when connecting to server.
Most of my clients use favourites tab or history tab. But Steam browser wont
update the IP if you had used domain name to add the server as it had already
resolved the domain when you first added the server with the domain name.
For players, I think steam://connectid/<Server ID> is more convenient on a
webpage and once its added it will auto update every 24 hours or until the
client manually refreshes his server list.
Also a console command connectid would also be nice.
On 5 March 2014 14:20, Dominik Friedrichs <[email protected]> wrote:
I'd have preferred a DNS solution that uses subdomains to address the specific
servers on an IP.
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