Ability to Link using Hosts?

icedan · Post by **icedan** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 11:16 pm

Hey Guys,

Lately my ISP is screwing up and I was wondering if I can link with other servers using hosts instead of IP's? Maybe there's a method or addon for doing this? I'm also running ircu of which I managed to modify it to link using hosts, but ircd apparently won't let me. Any way of making this work?

Basically I want other servers to link to me using icezonemalta.servebeer.com instead of my IP.

Thanks

Post by **Syzop** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:01 am

Sure, just put a hostname in the link::hostname field, and use link::options::nohostcheck on the other end (or both, of course).
If the host often resolves to a different IP you probably want to set link::options::nodnscache as well (else the host->IP is cached until you /rehash).
Docs: 3.11 - Dynamic DNS/IP linking support
Docs: 4.31 - Link Block (eg: the part on 'hostname')