Steam suggestion

[CyrexCore2k]

This got me thinking

http://www.edgegamers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=64081

It's kind of odd that we still add servers by IP address rather than hostname. Part of the reason for DNS is to avoid this kind of thing. Also host names are far easier to remember than IP addresses.

I suggested the change on the Steam forum. If anyone else thinks it's a good idea you should post in the thread and perhaps the good old developers at Valve will take notice.

 

[b0bfath3r]

It would definitely make it easier to find servers...
im all for it.

 

[WaterSnake]

It would definitely make it easier to find servers...
im all for it.

Me too

 

[BubbaSparx]

same

 

[CharlieMac]

I fifth that...

 

[Morbo]

Could you link us to your post on the Steam forums?

 

[PieSauruS[EMB]]

I'm pretty sure there's a server side command to change the IP into a hostname :O since my 1.6 team got a scrim once that had letters for their ip instead of numbers :O. I also had a tf2 server in the early days of tf2 and I remember coming across a command in the console sooooooo :O, I'll go look it up after I come back from school >.<

 

[TipsyHitman]

The hostname command is for the name of the server. Setting a url/hostname for the servers isn't hard to setup.The hostname just resolves the ip. You can still use the ip.

 

[Ice hearted killer]

all in favour say I



I

 

[CharlieMac]

I
Aye
Eye

 

[Owned]

ill go ahead and 11th that, good idea. would definatly make life, finding servers, a lot better.

 

[bull55dog]

I second that.

 

[CharlieMac]

You are seconding the 11th?? would that be 13ing it?

 

[wasawiki.]

Thats cool

 

[NCA]

Good idea. Instead of having 72.232.120.178 and 72.233.91.124, we could have donner.edgegamers.org and 2fortIR.edgegamers.org.

In theory, if the server IP ever changed in the future, you wouldn't need to change anything in your favorites. If a friend asks you for the server address, it's much easier to give a hostname instead of an IP.

In reality, I'm not sure how servers are saved in favorites. If the STEAM client only remembers the IP and not the hostname, it wouldn't do us any good.

 

[RESPAWN]

Well, the real question is whether this is a steam problem or if it's just that people don't bother to create DNS entries for their game servers. Really, though, it's not a huge problem thanks to the favorites list. You add the IP to your favorites once, and then no more problems.

 

[bull55dog]

Lol

 

[featherfoot07]

I like this idea, and support it so....

I
Aye
Eye

(yeah i copied, who's really ganna care)? lol

 

[Kill Me]

That would make it soooo much easier for me to find all the servers I want to play on!
Considering my Favorites & History tabs in all of my STEAM games are bugged. Some servers I click "Add To Favorites" to don't actually go in that tab, plus, they disappear sometimes, etc. Same goes with my History tab, some servers will stay in that tab, some won't even show up, some don't stay in there.