Multiple IP's from one computer? Possible?

Hi,

Looking for some answers to a few questions which I don't understand very much either. I'll just tell you what I know and hop you can fill in the gaps! (Thanks in advance).

At the moment I have 2 servers hosted with a company and although the host is great, I was thinking about getting a server I run from my home (Bandwidth is unlimited). The server would allow me to manage things easier and obviously cheaper in the long run. I plan to move both servers to this one computer and possibly run some other small servers for my friends.

The question I'm getting to I think is "Is it possible to have multiple dedicated IP's (No port) from one computer?" I'm wondering as hosting companies do it (I think) (More importantly my servers, so 2).

Excuse me for my ignorance if somewhere I've got the wrong end of the stick and got my whole idea of how this works wrong.

Thanks again to anyone who can shed some light on this!!

 

You might be interested in SRV records:
http://www.reddit.com/r/admincraft/comments/x6ysr/tutorial_how_to_setup_srv_records_in_13/
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/guide-srv-record-setup-get-rid-of-that-pesky-25567.106097/

 

Its possible.

 

Erm... Is it time to tell you I'm running Tekkit 3.1.2 (MC 1.2.5) ..... Sorry this is 1.3 ?

(I don't think a 1.4 tekkit update is coming soon although I hope it does!)

Any advance on that :/


Thanks a ton again

 

It's called multihoming.

 

I'm finding that link rather hard to understand can you specify which topic on the page refers to my particular query or is it all relevant....

Sorry and thanks!

 

I was just wandering around being informative... It's not supposed to solve anything.

However, if you want to "take your static IP address somewhere else" the way you can your cell phone number, that's generally not possible without some serious connections in the backbone/routing world.

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

No, I have a single static ip that I would be assigning ports to but I would like it if users didn't have to use it when they connect, for example.

play.technoverse.net (1st server - 25565)
play.technoraid.net (2nd server - 25585)

^^ they are currently hosted on different nodes by a company.

 

Nope.

Residential ISPs have dynamic IP adresses and furthermore do no allow static IPs the majority fo the time. So that means no..........you cannot have multiple IPs assigned to your server.

Like the above said though, there really is no need for multiple IP adresses, as Minecraft 1.3 onward supports SRV records. This may be a pain though, since you have a dynamic IP and will constantly need to update it, once it changes.

 

I do have a static IP as it has been in my contract forever (when I first joined my provider) and they have neglected to try to remove it although they no longer offer this service to the potential buyer.

Thanks again.

Sorry for double post but I am running 1.2.5 (Tekkit) so I'm assuming the methods that chaseoes linked are incompatible with 1.2.5?

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Ahah. Then yeah, the SRV records in DNS are the only possibility.

Normally it goes:
1. Client has DNS name: minecraftserver.example
2. Client asks DNS server to convert it to numeric IP and gets back 123.45.67.89
3. Client connects to 123.45.67.89:25565 (or user provided port)

Software that supports SRV however (like e.g. mc 1.3+) will first ask DNS for SRV record , which comes back like this:

Code:

_minecraft._tcp.mc  3600    IN  SRV 0  5  25585  minecraftserver.example
mcsrv      IN  A  123.45.67.89

Then client now knows what port (25585) to connect to. All you need is a DNS provider that supports setting a SRV record (most reasonable ones should), I think.

 

Yeah, 1.2.5 and Tekkit do not support SRV records.

So what I do, is just run the Tekkit server off port 25565 and put the rest (1.4.6 servers) on non-standard ports, with SRV records.

 

Thanks for the help but 2 servers are Tekkit. I guess I'll just have to live with a port, until Tekkit updates (If it ever does). The other servers will be 1.4.6 though so thats great.

Thanks to everyone who helped !!!!!!!!!

Consider topic closed!