On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Mike Hoskins (michoski) <micho...@cisco.com > wrote:
> -----Original Message----- > From: John <j...@klam.ca> > Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 7:29 PM > To: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" <bind-users@lists.isc.org> > Subject: SRV records etc > > >How useful are SRV records? Are they worth installing? What are their > >benefits, and pitfalls? > >Similar question about HINFO. > > In my limited experience, this is a question about requirements... In the > past I had to support applications which made extensive use of SRV for > service discovery. It was a requirement, it worked well in testing, so we > considered it useful and happily supported it. :-) > SRV records are almost essential for some applications. I can't imagine not supporting them. HINFO is getting pretty rare. The security issues are pretty obvious and its advantages are rather limited. -- Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com
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