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I have a TeamSpeak server that is hosted on a GameServers account under the domain ts4.gameservers.com with a port number of 9102. I have setup a CName that redirects ts.valhallashalls.com to ts4.gameservers.com, but to connect I still have to use the port number within the server.

As the gameserver host is using a non-standard port number for TeamSpeak is it possible to redirect with an SRV record from ts.valhallashalls.com without a port number to connect to my teamspeak server with the port number 9102?

Per default, the TS3 server creates a virtual voice server on port 9987 (UDP). The ServerQuery is listening on port 10011 (TCP) and file transfers will use port 30033 (TCP).

So what I want to do is redirect ts.valhallashalls.com, without a Port Number so when trying to connect a team speak client it will automatically try to connect to port 9987, and have it transparently be redirected to the correct port number.

Can I do this with a SRV Record?

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ts3dns.com. Google for teamspeak TSDNS. It appears to require a special service – Zoredache Sep 8 '11 at 3:36
@Zoredache, so if anything it's possible, we just have to figure out the how now. – Mark Tomlin Sep 8 '11 at 3:37
@Zoredache For future reference, where should I ask this question? – Mark Tomlin Dec 29 '11 at 7:44
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SRV records don't "do" anything on their own. Clients have to be developed to use those SRV records in order to figure out how to find or connect to a given service.

Googling around, it appears that teamspeak decided to make up their own "TSDNS" protocol that appears to be a special server you have to run on a specific port so that TS can ask it what port to connect to "for real". It appears that as of May, having the client find the server through a SRV record is still planned.

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Thank you, this is very helpful! – Mark Tomlin Sep 8 '11 at 3:51
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OMFG - that TSDNS stuff is so broken. They really need to use SRV records properly like real protocols do. – Alnitak Sep 8 '11 at 9:36
@Alnitak, could not agree more. – Mark Tomlin Sep 8 '11 at 9:41
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If you are using Apache for the webserver you can do a mod rewrite rule to forward requests on ts.v...com to the ts4.game....com server and include port numbers. Is the service http based or is it a program directly cOnnecting?

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The program is directly connecting, this is why it needs to be handled on the DNS level. (Also, I did not -1 you, I appreciated the answer, even if it did not help.) – Mark Tomlin Sep 8 '11 at 3:35
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I don't really care if you did or didn't -1 me, it's part of the fun here. If you're actually running the ts.v...com server, you may want to look into a port tunneler, one of which is available here: steelbytes.com/?mid=18 but it's not free. This is only one option. You could run a SOCKS server for this too. – U4iK_HaZe Sep 8 '11 at 3:42
I own the domain name, and I own the team speak instance, but I don't own the servers they are on. As the domain is a redirect to a guild launch address that we just setup. But we are going to have hosting on Godaddy soon. I also do have server admin on the TeamSpeak server, but I don't own the server that the TeamSpeak server is own as it's rented. This would all be a lot easier if we had a dedicated server but we don't have the money for that so I'm just trying to do the best I can with what I have. – Mark Tomlin Sep 8 '11 at 3:49
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I understand. You can't request for the port to be switched to default? Becuase then the CNAME would work properly. – U4iK_HaZe Sep 8 '11 at 3:51
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Alrighty. Good luck to you. – U4iK_HaZe Sep 8 '11 at 4:04
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