[BUG] LoginServer.ini cannot use FQDN

[John Adams]

Can you change it so we can use more than just our IP address(es) for the local system locations? My World machine, for instance, is on 10.1.1.1 (for example) but locally it's fully qualified domain name is "everquest2.emulators.local" and I am getting truncated - I think - when the world starts.
With IP, it the console looks like this:

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World server listening on: 10.1.1.1:9200

With FQDN, it looks more like:

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World server listening on: everquest2.emul:9200

Those of us who actually know how to set up DNS would like to be able to cash in on that whole "dynamic" thingy. Unless this is just a display bug at the console, then something else might be wrong.
Thanks!
-J

[ichijin]

whatismyip.org
It will give you something like: 224.12.212.21
Use that as your external IP. If your eqemu2.blahblah.com is 'bound' to 224.12.212.21 it will work just the same.

[LethalEncounter]

Sure, I'll take a look at it. I believe that is one of the pieces of code from EQEmu, so your guess is as good as mine about it Everything is hazy from back then.

[John Adams]

Thanks, Ichi. I know what my IP is lol...
This is about address translation and DNS behind my firewall. I move machines around a lot (IPs) but generally the FQDN stays the same.
LE, I found out after (thanks to link2009's persistence to check my ports heh) that my initial problem here *might* have been a DHCP failure on my part. Let me re-test this when I get home, and maybe if anything the truncated text is simply a visual problem. Cuz I use FQDN for all other emulators, including EQEmu... so if this is leftover code, it's likely working fine.

[John Adams]

Just re-tested this using my local FQDN (server.domain.com) and the name does not resolve. I definitely need to use an IP address, which is not really good for those who move things around a lot (like me heh).
But seeing as how most people will not re-IP things regularly, I'd say it was pretty low-priority in the grand scope of things. I can take a look through the code sometime to see if there is some character length limitation on reading that field or not. I think even I am capable of changing that, if I need to.

[LethalEncounter]

You can use your a cname (domain name) for worldaddress, but not for internalworldaddress. For internalworldaddress you must specify a valid local IP address. It can be changed if necessary, but obviously it isnt a priority.