all you really need to know is the address and port

True, however, what you can do is have the name resolve to the address, and then all you need is the name.

that isn't something i can do on my end, thats on a per client basis

Yes it is

not all irc clients use the name and addresses in the same way

In DNS configuration.

I'm not aware of any IRC client that will not use DNS resolution.

in the files, there is not configuration for that, i spent 22 straight hours setting this server up, i know what i can and cant do with it

uh, ok...

Right, it's not in the IRC server, it's in the DNS configuration.

which isnt something i can do

Yes it is, you control DNS.

if your talking about in my router settings, no, no i cant, theres no DNS settings in my router

your not the first to bring this up Aux

Ok, you already have alina.net set to resolve to 144.217.252.90, right?

You should be able to set irc.alina.net to resolve to 45.46.75.226.

no, because i cant, for the last time, its not something i can do

Yes, it is.

What are you using for your DNS?

It looks like you're using the 101domain name servers at the moment, so you'd probably use this: https://help.101domain.com/hosting/using-plesk/link-a-new-subdomain

Are there any Gopher servers left anymore?

I remember I had to do something similar to this when I set up a subdomain for my Minecraft server, which is also not a webpage. Though I went through DigitalOcean.

Well, I was using namecheap as the registrary, but pointing to DigitalOcean's nameservers.

BTW, would recommend them. Their most basic VPS is cheaper than a lot of other places' shared hosting.

I'm going to reacquaint myself with Vim's finer features today.

no you're just being gay again

fug u

Vim is great.

I love how you can take a visual selection and pipe it through some linux command.

Or just the entire file.

Like if you do :%!figlet

I have a few of those keybound just because doing that sort of thing is pretty useful.

you know what other people have? a gf.

tfwno

Thing is you could always install Bind and set up your own nameserver, and have your registrar point to that.

@auxchar i hate 101domain, but it was the cheapest option back in 2017 when i made my website

and im too lazy to switch since its work to switch

Alright, but you know what I'm getting at, right?

You could probably file a ticket to get a record pointed at your irc server.

DigitalOcean has a nice comfy panel for doing DNS stuff like that, though.

do you know how much work goes into changing the nameserver?