Trying to understand SRV records

[Cricket Liu]

> The first problem I have is that Cricket shows an example (p517 4th ed):
>      _http._tcp.www.movie.edu.     IN SRV  ..........
> Now RFC 2782 says this about the service name:
>      If Assigned Numbers names the service indicated, that name is the
only
> name which is legal for SRV lookups.
> But RFC1700 says:
>      www-http         80/tcp    World Wide Web HTTP
>      www-http         80/udp    World Wide Web HTTP
> Has Cricket got his example wrong?

Arguably.  However, what's important is the label the client
prepends when looking up the relevant SRV records, and no
SRV-smart web clients yet exist, to my knowledge.

The discussion I remember from previous IETFs suggests that
the use of SRV records in conjunction with a particular service
should be specified in an RFC.  That RFC, presumably, would
define the appropriate label to use.

RFC 2782 says that Levon is working on some document to
specify how to use SRV records to locate LDAP servers; I
don't know of any such document for web servers.

I'll certainly adjust the example to follow whatever the IETF
comes up with.  Until then, though, it's just an example.

cricket