Hi Jerry, On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 12:47:51PM -0700, Jerry Scharf wrote: > Willy, > > I can't answer for the code but I can talk about SRV records. I helped bury > some of the bodies in DNS. :) > > A SRV record in DNS is a different type of record, like MX, PTR, TXT,... > > You can think of SRV as MX generalized for any listener. The naming form is > _http._tcp to keep it from colliding with names, but that was mostly for > clarity as requested by the RFC editor. In the DNS protocol you will never > get SRV records when doing normal host lookup (A/AAAA records.) When you ask > for SRV records, you may also get back the A/AAAA records for the hosts it > points to as "additional data."
OK but what I meant is that I suspected the type of request was altered by the naming, though I can be wrong. I don't know well the DNS code here. I'm aware however of the naming to avoid collisions :-) Thanks, Willy
