RFC 2052:A DNS RR for specifying the location of s...
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... http://www.asdf.com/ it does a lookup of http.tcp.www.asdf.com ...


... indicated, that name is the only name which is legal for SRV lookups. Only locally defined services may be named locally. The Service ...


... desirable). Therefore SRV will have to coexist with A record lookups for a long time, and DNS administrators ...


... servers and connect to the preferred one: Do a lookup for QNAME=service.protocol.target, QCLASS=IN ...
... else Do a lookup for QNAME=target, QCLASS=IN, QTYPE=A ...
... service or protocol names (for the same reason why variant names cannot be allowed: Applications would have to do two or more lookups). - If a truncated response comes back from an SRV ...
... - Future protocols could be designed to use SRV RR lookups as the means by which clients locate their servers. ...


... connection to "asdf.com." needs an SRV lookup of "telnet.tcp.asdf.com." and possibly A lookups of "new- ...
... lookup of "telnet.tcp.asdf.com." and possibly A lookups of "new- fast-box.asdf.com." and/or the other hosts named. The size of the ...



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