Setting Location

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 09:27:18PM +0000, hostmaster at localhost.com wrote:
> What is the syntax for setting the location in the DNS record 

Location of what?  Location on the planet of the server?  [Computer
security folks often frown on this, OBTW.]

There are a couple of experimental resource records defined to do this.
Cf. D&B p. 406 or RFC 1876 to read about the LOC RR.  A previous RFC,
1712, discussed the similar experimental GPOS RR.

Are you talking about location of services on your system?  There are
several proposed standards for this, not all of which I've had time to
read.  Cf:

2165 Service Location Protocol. J. Veizades, E. Guttman, C. Perkins,
     S. Kaplan. June 1997. (Format: TXT=169889 bytes) (Updated by RFC2608,
     RFC2609) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2608 Service Location Protocol, Version 2. E. Guttman, C. Perkins, J.
     Veizades, M. Day. June 1999. (Format: TXT=129475 bytes) (Updates
     RFC2165) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2609 Service Templates and Service: Schemes. E. Guttman, C. Perkins,
     J. Kempf. June 1999. (Format: TXT=72842 bytes) (Updates RFC2165)
     (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)
2610 DHCP Options for Service Location Protocol. C. Perkins, E.
     Guttman. June 1999. (Format: TXT=10859 bytes) (Status: PROPOSED
     STANDARD)
2614 An API for Service Location. J. Kempf, E. Guttman. June 1999.
     (Format: TXT=164002 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

but also:

2782 A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV). A.
     Gulbrandsen, P. Vixie, L. Esibov. February 2000. (Format: TXT=24013
     bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2052) (Status: PROPOSED STANDARD)

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