Allow DNS name when connecting over IP

352 votes

Would be great to accept valid DNS name when connecting to a server. Will help communities to organize their servers around their community domain

Done Suggested by: Val (19 Feb, '21) • Upvoted: 08 Dec, '22 • Comments: 14

Comments: 14

19 Feb, '21
Jeff
+1 for this suggestion! This would help a lot!
20 Feb, '21
Bob
This is a low hanging fruit.
22 Feb, '21
Code
I too would really appreciate this! Really helps those of us that constantly have our ISPs changing our IPs.
22 Feb, '21
Sam
This would be a good privacy and logistics consideration as well. Privacy to not share public IP addresses and logistics for (not so tech-savvy) users being able to remember how to connect to a server.
22 Feb, '21
SuperMeadBoy
Yes this please, I am hosting a dedicated server for friends but it doesn't show for some of them in the server browser list, and I don't have a static IP available to use the numeric-only Direct Join, but do have access to a dynamic DNS address.
23 Feb, '21
Trenjeska
helheim yes!
I know this is Early Access and the connect IP box just a quick UI hack, but as a QoL improvement it would be really appreciated.
That reminds me... does it accept IPV6.... time to test!
23 Feb, '21
oPyRuSo
helpful for dynamic IP and i think not so hard to do (just remove restriction ?)
24 Feb, '21
TBone
yes, please do this, especially with the connect to ip thing not remembering the last ip that you connected to. Not easy for people who want to play but suck at computers to do.
24 Feb, '21
oogle
This would be great! Much easier for people to remember a DNS name instead of an IP address.
24 Feb, '21
Thyazide
I already have a redirect for my dedicated server. Please make it useful.
25 Feb, '21
Phillip
Oh wow I just posted asking for this then saw your suggestion. I don't think it would be too hard if they're using C# or similar just pass the current input through a method like this and spit out a response if it's unresolvable.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.dns.gethostentry?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=net-5.0#System_Net_Dns_GetHostEntry_System_String_
25 Feb, '21
Oran
Yes! And assume default port. i.e. only require port entry if it's non-default
02 Mar, '21
Tomatomage
It's fixed by the update which was shipped today. Already tested, worked finde. Thanks to the devs :)
02 Mar, '21
Toby
Remembering the last entered value would also be greatly appreciated.