At 09:25 PM 6/2/2004, Jason Thorpe wrote:

>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).

OK.  Another random thought.  Use /etc/services to specify it by the
existence of an alias of srv-name (srv-telnet).  The existence of the
alias would tell getaddrinfo that it should attempt to to use SRV records.

I'm trying to avoid tweaking each app to use AI_SRV and let that come
from a configuration file.

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