dns entry incorporating web port number?

[Kevin Darcy]

Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 10:00 AM -0700 8/23/01, Michael Davis wrote:
>
> >  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.
>
>         The only method that is supported in the DNS is to use SRV
> records, but no applications I know of support SRV records.

No web-browser applications, correct, as of yet, but Active Directory uses
them like crazy (and I mean that literally :-)


- Kevin