dns A RR as failover

[Barry Margolin]

In article <dt4c7g$30pf$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Aleksander <aleksander at krediidiinfo.ee> wrote:

> Thanks Holger and Mark,
> 
> I understand that this is a no go.
> 
> SRV records are not popular enough to be used in 'production'. Or am I 
> wrong?

They're used internally within Windows Active Directory, but not by many 
general purpose Internet applications.  E.g. I don't think any web 
browsers use them.

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