[17.79] direct connect only with IP?

[defilor]

Hello Forum, hello fellow Factorians,

I have setup a headless server on my own Linux box that I want to play on with friends, and the setup is working nicely. However, for some reason it seems that when connecting via DIRECT CONNECT I have to enter an IP address. Is that working as intended? I thought that entering a hostname works as well for some reason and keep thinking that I have tested this a few days ago and seem to remember that it actually worked. I have done so much setting up on my new box that I'm not quite sure it did, though, lots of testing etc. so I might be mistaken.

Am I, though?

[Loewchen]

I don't think host name is supposed to work, URL does afaik.

[Joghert]

If you want to use a "name" you need to have a system where clients can resolve the name to an IP-address.
If you play on a LAN, you could use MDNS/Avahi/Bonjour and have hostname.local
If you play over the internet you need to use an external DNS service.

(the windows HOSTNAME is usually not used on linux systems because it is not a standard tcp/ip method)

[defilor]

Yup, it's working as intended now, thanks.