Giving out tcp/ip Port Information

[Khachaturov, Vassilii]

Standard resolvers out there mostly don't count on WKS/SRV. On the other
hand, WKS/SRV DNS space is not that populated. The most common way to do
service-based routing via DNS is creating an extra domain level for
desribing the hosts+service: ftp.something, www.something etc. and using
only A records and standard resolvers.
If the resolver and the server are under your control, SRV is OK as well.
WKS is obsolete by now.

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin McCormick [mailto:martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu]
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 10:13 PM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Giving out tcp/ip Port Information


	Is there any way besides a TXT record for a dns to give out
special information to a remote host about such things as the port
number to be used to make a connection?