On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:50:09PM -0700, sudog wrote:
> 
> I know that SRV records are a great way to provide portable services sitting 
> on non-standard ports; But are there any comments as to SRV records in 
> general? Or perhaps whether anyone outside of certain Windows type systems 
> even recognize SRV records?
> 
> Thanks--just curious to know more, and am just reading RFC 2782 now to get a 
> better handle on what else can be done with them.

NetBSD's Kerberos uses/can use SRV records to find the Kerberos
server. Just be careful because the implementation doesn't match
the RFC. In particular, this in DNS causes a total failure:

; NO other services are supported
*._tcp                 IN      SRV     0 0 0 .
*._udp                 IN      SRV     0 0 0 .

I'm not quite sure what the advantage of SRV records over Hesiod's
sloc records is, or why sloc couldn't have been extended to include
those advantages. 
-- 
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invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor ...
in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser ... in an irregular way
fascinating to cats,..." -- US patent 5443036, "Method of exercising a cat"