Made a suggestion on the subreddit about bringing back test.civcraft.vg

[staygroovy57]

I did take the time to make a post on the subreddit asking if there was a way to make CivTest a separate subdomain in the DNS entry tables so that JourneyMap data stops being corrupted because it gets shared between the two sites.

This would go a long way towards making players such as myself want to spend more time on CivTest, it's frustrating because precious JourneyMap data being overwritten is not fun.

Mentioning it on here because I am not aware of what such a move would entail. Would changing the subdomain address cause all sorts of issues with plugins, database calls, config files needing to be edited or is all of this passing through some sort of abstraction layer so that these lower-level functions do not need to be pointed back to the main domain when moving things from test server to production?

[Nick]

mc.civcraft.co

civcraft.civcraft.co

test.civcraft.co

civtest.civcraft.co

Does that help?

N

[staygroovy57]

>mc.civcraft.co civcraft.civcraft.co test.civcraft.co civtest.civcraft.co Does that help?

I just tried adding each of the domain names you listed above into a new entry in my multiplayer servers list, they all just took me into the main server.

[Nick]

Yes, the IP for CivTest isn't changing. Adding new domains is easy though.

N

[Nick]

Try test.civcraft.co. I added a SRV record for it.

N

[Rourke750]

srv doesnt work with minecraft.  You need to add the port.

[Nick]

That's what I figure, but it's worth a shot.

N

[Rourke750]

If we were on bungie cord though...

[justin kilpatrick]

with bungie cord it would detect every world as the same server and constantly overwrite them, sounds like this plugin just needs an upgrade.

[Rourke750]

No bungie can forward domains to specific servers. So you wouldn't need to add the port at the end.

[justin kilpatrick]

we can't do that, what if the player is playing on shard A (the overworld) and tries to directly join shard C (the nether)

[Rourke750]

What does that have to do with anything?

[justin kilpatrick]

we had planned to hide direct server joining addresses in favor of a single round-robin domain that would hit different bungee servers that would then direct people to the server they where previously on, so the players client should see one of a couple of ip's (different bungee servers) or just one domain name depending on what it looks at.

[Nick]

Rourke's saying that with bungie cord we can watch what domain they use to connect, similar to /mlhsec, and use that to route them over to the test server without the need for them to use a different port.

N

[anthonyb]

How is the minecraft server privy to the DNS query response that landed the end-user at that IP?

[Nick]

The client includes the hostname it is connecting to in the initial packet of the MC protocol.

N

[Nick]

staygroovy57, did you try test.civcraft.co now that it has the SRV record in place just to see if it would change anything for the plugin?

N

[Rourke750]

That would go to civcraft. You need to add the port but it should then redirect to xivtest and be fine with the mod.

[Nick]

Rourke, we're just trying out the SRV record, which would direct the MC client to the proper port for the given domain if the MC client is coded to support the right DNS query. If it works, MC would connect to test.civcraft.co on port 25566 without the need to specify test.civcraft.co:25566 in the client.

N

[Rourke750]

But it doesn't do that.

[Nick]

Have you tried it? That's all I'm asking, for someone to connect to test.civcraft.co without a port number to see if it does honor a SRV record, which we doubt.

N

[justin kilpatrick]

that took me directly to Civtest.

[Nick]

Colored me surprised. All hail lack of port number. Added SRV records for the other three domains.

N

[Dr. Andrew Jawa]

By the nine divines!

Excerpts from Nick's message of 2015-03-13 14:41:12 -0700:

> >>>>>>>>> <http://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/2ypxec/suggestion_any_way_to_change_civtest_ip_as_it/>

> >>>>>>>>> so that JourneyMap data stops being corrupted because it gets shared
> >>>>>>>>> between the two sites.

> >>>>>>>>> *This would go a long way towards making players such as myself
> >>>>>>>>> want to spend more time on CivTest*, it's frustrating because

[staygroovy57]

>connect to test.civcraft.co without a port number to see if it does honor a SRV record, which we doubt.

I can confirm that this works, I thank you Erocs for thinking of this!!

This definitely feels worthy of being shouted out on rooftops and made more official so that it may help get more players involved.

Incidentally, is there a known location for the End portal on CivTest so that we could go there without the need to pearl a second account?

[Robert Berrier]

Just make a portal.