RFC 2782:A DNS RR for specifying the location of s...
RFC-Ref

address


Click on the red underlined text to get to the source

... Currently, one must either know the exact address of a server to contact it, or broadcast a question. ...
... Note that where this document refers to "address records", it means A RR's, AAAA ...


... domain name of the target host. There MUST be one or more address records for this name, the name MUST NOT be an alias (in the sense of RFC 1034std13 ...
... 2181prop). Implementors are urged, but not required, to return the address record(s) in the Additional Data section. Unless and until permitted by future standards action, name compression ...


... SRV RR is futile (even if desirable). Therefore SRV would have to coexist with address record lookups for existing protocols, and DNS ...
... protocols, and DNS administrators should try to provide address records to support old clients: ...
... single domain are spread over several hosts, it seems advisable to have a list of address records at the same DNS node ...
... NNTP and other protocols likely to be used with this name. Note that some programs only try the first address they get back from e.g. gethostbyname(), and we don't know how widespread this behavior is. ...
... service is provided by several hosts, one can either provide address records for all the hosts (in which case the round-robin ...
... service only when the main server(s) is/are down, it probably shouldn't be listed in address records. ...
... Hosts that are referenced by backup address records must use the port number specified in Assigned Numbers for the service ...


... query the DNS for address records for the Target or use any such records found in the Additional Data ...
... SRV response. for each address record found, try to connect to the (protocol, address, service ...
... for each address record found, try to connect to the (protocol, address, service). ...
... IN, QTYPE=A for each address record found, try to connect to the (protocol, address, service ...
... for each address record found, try to connect to the (protocol, address, service) ...


... If the Additional Data section doesn't contain address records for all the SRV RR's and the client ...
... target host(s) involved, the client MUST look up the address record(s). (This happens quite often when the address record ...
... client MUST look up the address record(s). (This happens quite often when the address record has shorter TTL than the SRV ...


... provider.net." is quoted and only needs to be counted once. 120 bytes for the 6 address records (assuming IPv4 only) mentioned by the SRV ...


... port numbers, as well as host names and addresses. Because this vulnerability exists already, with names and addresses ...
... addresses. Because this vulnerability exists already, with names and addresses, this is not a new vulnerability, merely a slightly extended one, with little ...


... Authors' Addresses ...



Google
Web
RFC-Ref