headpat.games/
you're at the root.nobody lives here.
this domain holds DNS records for other people's game servers. you almost certainly wanted something.headpat.games, and you are missing the something.
since you're here though, the server would like a pat.
1:00 left
0 patscombo x1.00
uptime
100.0%
hand
ready
click the server to begin. keep it up for 60 seconds. patting costs your hand, so pace it.
- nothing is on fire yet.
what this domain actually does
game servers hosted on headpat.space get a subdomain here, free. it is two records and a small amount of smugness.
$ dig +short A mycoolsmp.headpat.games
198.51.100.42
$ dig +short SRV _minecraft._tcp.mycoolsmp.headpat.games
0 0 25565 mycoolsmp.headpat.games.- 1you spin up a game server on headpat.space.
- 2its name gets lowercased and trimmed into a dns label.
- 3an A record points at your node, and an SRV record parked next to it carries the port.
your friends type mycoolsmp.headpat.games. no port. no ip. no "wait what was it again".
only for games that agree on an SRV name, which in practice means the one you are already thinking of. everything else still gets a perfectly good ip and port, like it's 2011.