dns entry incorporating web port number?

[Treptow, Craig]

Check out SRV records on page 515 in the 4th edition of "DNS and BIND".  

Windows2000 seems to be the only commercially available app that is making use of them.  We have home-grown apps that use them, but if you want this to work in a browser, I think you're out of luck.

-----Original Message-----
From: davism at mail.belmont.edu [mailto:davism at mail.belmont.edu]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 12:01 PM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: dns entry incorporating web port number?



My apologies in advance if this is well known, but so far the
answer to this one eludes me.

Here's what I'd like to do: given that I have two (or more) web-based
apps on the same box, distinguished only by port numbers, my users can
go to a site such as xyz.belmont.edu:8950 for the first app, or
xyz.belmont.edu:8960 for the second app, and so on.

I'd rather be able to create a DNS entry (I'm guessing a cname entry
here) which would itself point to the correct port, thus something like
app1.belmont.edu which would point over to xyz.belmont.edu:8950, and so
on.

It's just that users generally foul up on entering the correct port
number.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.  Thanks again.
-
michael davis
belmont university information systems
davism at mail.belmont.edu