This might not be as easy as it sounds. SAF might look something like this: - Did user add by hostname or ip4/ip6? store accordingly, no reverse lookup. - If user added by hostname, resolve and store ip and hostname accordingly, reverse lookups still useless. - Solve the problem with not sending a whole barrel of queries from the users favorite list when some crazy bastards have a hundred or so of them, click the fav-tab and whine to no end when 15-30 of them no longer resolves and the oddities that follows due to timeouts.
Now.... Possibly letting the user update the stored static ip if s/he chooses to, or do it slowly in the background (awesome, more threaded bugs, leaks and overcomplicating things). Confusion from "casual" players with the updating-process commences. DNS-problems yet another point of failure when people are trying to play online. Should masterservers be rewritten to allow server operators to list their hostname on them to serve the clients? Obviously this would be a very bad idea, so we´re back to favorites. ALL OF THIS for manually adding hostnames to favorites? Oh yeah, this will be fun. -The Gryzowrg On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Andrew Armitage <[email protected]>wrote: > This would make the lives of server admins a LOT easier. > > Moving the server from one machine to another, for upgrades, extra capacity > etc. has always been a nightmare, and it takes ages to get our irregular > players back. > > If they all remembered us by name then it would be a doddle! > > A > > > On 25/06/2011 01:02, Guy Watkins wrote: > >> The hostname should be in a CVAR and returned when the server is queried. >> It could be displayed in the browser without ever looking it up, but no >> need >> to display it in the browser, since you know the IP address at this time >> and >> can connect to it by IP. However, when you save it in favorites, it >> should >> save the hostname if one exists in the CVAR. >> >> Maybe the browser could display the hostname when you hover over an entry? >> >> This was talked about before on May 10 2010 relating to IPv6. The subject >> was: "IPv6 Support" >> >> Like this: >> sv_hostname=myserver.com:27016 >> >> Guy >> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/**mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux<http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
