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SRCDS Dynamic External IP Lose Fav List? -CSS
#1
I just posted here wondering if I'd be able to setup a dedicated server on one of my shunned computators with a dynamic external IP (the one at whatismyip.com) without it being lost from the favourites list? BTW I'm running this as a Counter-Strike: Source server.

Right now, if I set the -ip flag in the shortcut/batch file to launch SRCDS to the LAN IP (192.168.xxx.xxx) it's able to connect to the steam servers and it shows up in the "Internet" tab in the Steam Servers, for me, don't know if it does for anyone else ATM. But if I restart the router, it gives the server a new external IP. What I'm wondering is because the external IP changes, would this remove the server from a player's Favourite list? Is there a workaround for this?

If I set the -ip flag to the external IP (whatismyip.com). It does the same thing, but I'd have to constantly change that -ip flag to match the dynamic external IP. Giving me the same problem.

If I don't include the -ip flag, it acts the same way as if the -ip flag were set to the LAN IP.

Oh, incase you need it, here's my full command list thingy:
-console -game cstrike -ip 192.168.xxx.xxx -port 27015 -tickrate 66 +map surf_buck-wild -maxplayers 14

I'm rather poor at explaining things so I hope you got what I meant without getting tooo lost. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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#2
The only way to "fix this" is to use some type of Dynamic DNS and have the players manually add the DNS name rather then the IP. There is no way to do it automatically.
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#3
Alright thx for the reply, anyone know of some good DNS thingymajiggers? Is it a service? I'll try searching google
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#4
I've used no-ip in the past.
~ Mooga ...w00t? - SRCDS.com on Twitter
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Please do not PM me for server related help
fqdn Wrote:if you've seen the any of the matrix movies, a game server is not all that different. it runs a version of the game that handles the entire world for each client connected. that's the 2 sentence explanation.
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#5
alright thanks. I'll check out no-ip and I've already gotten started with dyndns to see if that would work for me.

Edit:
Okay so I've got my server running and up using the DynamicDNS way. Now if I favourite the hostname of the DNS thing instead of an IP it keeps it, which is exactly what I wanted. Now to make sure that others can see the server through the "Internet" tab and not only me.
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