2004-06-03 kl. 06.25 skrev Jason Thorpe:

>
> On Jun 2, 2004, at 6:40 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> But it's the wrong thing to do.  Using SRV records is
>> application-specific, not client machine specific; we need a way for 
>> an
>> application to signal that it wants to use SRV.
>
> Correct.  It is absolutely inappropriate to specify srv in 
> nsswitch.conf.  The notion of doing so doesn't even really make much 
> sense (nevermind the fact that srv is just another use of dns).

The most obvious place would be to add a new option to resolv.conf/the 
RES_OPTIONS env variable. I looked at the code reading those 
(src/lib/libc/resolv/res_init.c) and it silently ignores unknown 
options, presumably on all archs, so there wouldn't be any 
compatibility issue.

Going that way though, there should probably be a way for each 
application to override in either way, using perhaps options AI_SRV and 
AI_NOSRV. As pointed out, this is a case where the application 
sometimes does know better than the user.
-- 
Pelle Johansson
<morth@morth.org>