Is there a way to save a host you direct connect to so you can easily reconnect later?

I guess you could copy the address. Paste it somewhere convenient , and copy/paste it back again when you need it. There is no other way that I know of.

That's what I've been doing. I just thought that maybe there was an easier way.

Maybe they could do something for a future release?

It is unlikely they will change it, if you check some other threads it is evident that making this sort of feature will put unnecessary burden on the network. I do personally think it would be a good feature but I think I can understand why it is unlikely to happen.

I tend to save the address of some of those I direct connect to if they have more stuff I'd like to downld. Or to help continue downlds from them. But the problem is, many people use dynamic ip's. So, like happened today, i came across one i had direct connected to some weeks back. But their ip had changed.