Need a bit help with TSDNS

[PhilWhite]

At this point I had no idea what to do except ask for help. This post will probably be fairly long, so please endure it...


A friend of mine and myself have plans of setting up a community to support games, clans, servers, etc.

We obtained a Non-Profit License for Teamspeak and we have purchased a VPS, Domain name, and are currently in the process of getting the ball rolling.

Today we decided we'd get the TS server up and running so that we can start getting things going. We installed the Teamspeak 3 server on our VPS along with the NPL. We're currently attempting to avoid giving out the IP address of the VPS for simplicity. We'd like to have a URL as the teamspeak hostname instead of an ip/port combination. After a bit of research, I found out about TSDNS and attempted to configure it based off of what I had read. I failed miserably.

The domain name we currently own is 'LogisticGaming.com'
I tried configuring the TSDNS file like this: logisticgaming.com=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9987

I feel like I'm missing something completely, because this doesn't work whatsoever.

I'm still able to connect to the Teamspeak server by using the IP address so that isn't the problem.

I dunno... My head is so screwed right now that I didn't know what else to do except for ask for help xD

Hope you guys can help, thanks in advance.

[maxi1990]

This should work if the A record of your domain (logisticgaming.com) points to the ip the tsdns server is running on.

[filimonic]

Example:

# dig LogisticGaming.com
.....
;; ANSWER SECTION:
LogisticGaming.com.     172800  IN      A       31.170.162.146

You place your front-end server at 31.170.162.146 (WWW, TSDNS, ...) and your teamspeak servers are on IP 1.2.3.1, 1.2.3.2, 1.2.3.3.

Your virtual servers:

Server address | Description | TSDNS name
1.2.3.1
...1.2.3.1:20011  World of Warcraft - Alliance  wowally.LogisticGaming.com
...1.2.3.1:20012  World of Warcraft - Horde   wowhorde.LogisticGaming.com
1.2.3.2
...1.2.3.2:20011  Diablo III - English   d3en.LogisticGaming.com
...1.2.3.2:20012  Diablo III - Russian   d3ru.LogisticGaming.com
1.2.3.3
...1.2.3.3:20011  SomeGame - RedTeam   sgred.LogisticGaming.com
...1.2.3.3:20012  SomeGame - BlueTeam  sgblue.LogisticGaming.com
...1.2.3.3:20013  SomeGame - YellowTeam   sgyellow.LogisticGaming.com
...1.2.3.3:20014  SomeGame - GreedTeam   sggreen.LogisticGaming.com

Your config will be:

wowally.LogisticGaming.com=1.2.3.1:20011
wowhorde.LogisticGaming.com=1.2.3.1:20012

d3en.LogisticGaming.com=1.2.3.2:20011
d3ru.LogisticGaming.com=1.2.3.2:20012

sgred.LogisticGaming.com=1.2.3.3:20011
sgblue.LogisticGaming.com=1.2.3.3:20012
sgyellow.LogisticGaming.com=1.2.3.3:20013
sggreen.LogisticGaming.com=1.2.3.3:20014

I recommend moving virluaserver from default port for situations when tsdns not working on client side.
Then users can connect via TSDNS addresses (sggreen.LogisticGaming.com) without any IPs or ports.

[ARCHI]

This should work if the A record of your domain (logisticgaming.com) points to the ip the tsdns server is running on.

And remember about that. Domain needs to be DIRECTLY assigned (record A of DNS) to get things working. Domains are just aliases in the web and they always point to IP. You can use traceroute or even ping to domain to check if it's configured right.

Right now it points to 31.170.162.146 so if you can connect using 31.170.162.146 address then everything should work fine.

[SilentStorm]

You don't have to run TS3 Servers on another IP than the TSDNS Server, it will work all fine on the same machine using the same IP.

[PhilWhite]

After I made this post last night, I found a bit of a solution, or so I thought.

I found a website called ts3dns.com and it very simply did exactly what I needed.
Unfortunately, I screwed it up by changing the nameservers from my domain host to my webhost
so that we would have a .com domain instead of a subdomain provided by the webhost.

I guess my question is: Is it possible for me to configure the same domain to work for both TS3 and my webhost?

And thank you very much for your replies

[barricas]

My guess is that you closed the tsdns server with ctrl+c.

Install "screen" and run: screen ./<tsdns executable> without <>
Then detach pressing Ctrl+A+D

[SilentStorm]

Why screen when you can just do ./tsdnsserver_linux_<arch> &

[PhilWhite]

For the record, this has been resolved.

[Sebi94]

Why screen when you can just do ./tsdnsserver_linux_<arch> &

There is a simple answer: Screen can be attached and detached. The prompt "&" says to the job, that it should work as background job. But there are some background jobs, which prints their informations on the screen and that problem you don't have by "Screen".

For example the minecraft server prints as background job ALL informations on the screen and you can't exit this informationen without exiting/closing/stopping the server. Well... Screen was there the only solution.