SRV Request to DNS

[Mark Andrews]

In message <561E91ED.3060103 at clegg.com>, Alan Clegg writes:
>
> > Are there *any* current, well-known protocols that make use of SRV
> > records to find the port? The examples I've seen just use it to find a
> > server (analogous to the way MX records are used for mail).
>
> I guess it depends on what you define as a well-known protocol...
>
> Teamspeak 3:
> https://support.teamspeakusa.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/293
> /12/does-teamspeak-3-support-dns-srv-records
>
> AlanC
> --
> When I do still catch the odd glimpse, it's peripheral; mere fragments
> of mad-doctor chrome, confining themselves to the corner of the eye.

All protocols that use SRV do.  It's the operators that decide the
port to put in the SRV record, not the protocol.

Mark
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