What I think that you are missing is that not only does the SRV record
define the port, but it defines the server hostname/ip.  So IF you wanted
to, you could host your wave server on a totally different domain.
_xmpp-server._tcp.wave.microcomaustralia.com.au SRV record 5 0 5269
chat.some-other-domain. <http://chat.microcomaustralia.com.au/>tld

So now people can still send waves to [email protected],
but those waves are actually sent to the chat.some-other-domain.tld server.

In the above instance, you WOULDN'T need the wave.microcomaustralia.com.au A
record, because it's never used as an actual domain name.  the
chat.some-other-domain.tld A record would have to exist somewhere though.


On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Brian May
<[email protected]>wrote:

>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:38:19PM -0400, Joe Gregorio wrote:
> > For Federating you will need the _xmpp-server._
> > tcp.wave.microcomaustralia.com.au SRV record.
> > I just recently added in a wiki page with how to get federation working
> that
> > hopefully explains
> > this. Feedback welcome!
>
> The only thing that puzzles me at the moment is why you need both:
>
> _xmpp-server._tcp.wave.microcomaustralia.com.au SRV
>
> and
>
> wave.microcomaustralia.com.au A
>
> I would have thought that one or the other would make the other redundant.
>
> I appreciate the point the the SRV record can contain a reference to the
> port
> number, but the A record can't.
>
> I guess this should also mean (at least in theory) it is possible to run
> multiple servers on one IP address, with different ports.
> --
> Brian May <[email protected]>
>
> >
>

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