<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Mike Hoskins (michoski) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michoski@cisco.com" target="_blank">michoski@cisco.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: John <<a href="mailto:john@klam.ca">john@klam.ca</a>><br>
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 7:29 PM<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:bind-users@lists.isc.org">bind-users@lists.isc.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:bind-users@lists.isc.org">bind-users@lists.isc.org</a>><br>
Subject: SRV records etc<br>
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>How useful are SRV records? Are they worth installing? What are their<br>
>benefits, and pitfalls?<br>
>Similar question about HINFO.<br>
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</span>In my limited experience, this is a question about requirements... In the<br>
past I had to support applications which made extensive use of SRV for<br>
service discovery. It was a requirement, it worked well in testing, so we<br>
considered it useful and happily supported it. :-)<br clear="all"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>SRV records are almost essential for some applications. I can't imagine not supporting them.<br><br></div><div>HINFO is getting pretty rare. The security issues are pretty obvious and its advantages are rather limited.<br>--<br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:rkoberman@gmail.com" target="_blank">rkoberman@gmail.com</a><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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