Giving out tcp/ip Port Information

Patrick Greenwell patrick at stealthgeeks.net
Thu Aug 19 19:36:37 UTC 1999


On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	Is there any way besides a TXT record for a dns to give out
> special information to a remote host about such things as the port
> number to be used to make a connection?

You might be able to use the WKS(Well-known Service) RR. 

I remember reading recently that M$ was using some RR for this purpose but
for the life of me I can't remember what it was, or if it was a
M$'ism(likely) or an IETF-approved RR. 




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