HTTP SRV Records

[Danny Mayer]

Dan Farrell wrote:
> Dear list, 
> 
> I hope to enlist your help in sorting out my HTTP SRV record problems.
> After a little investigation I am not sure whether these records are
> even valuable.  My SOA looks like this: 
> ===================================================================
> $ORIGIN .
> $TTL 7200       ; 2 hours
> farrellhome.net.  IN SOA  spore.ath.cx. root.spore.ath.cx. ( 
> 				202        ; serial 
> 				7200       ;refresh (2 hours) 
> 				1800       ;retry (30 minutes) 
> 				604800     ; expire (1 week)
> 				7200       ; minimum (2 hours)  
> 			)
>                         NS      spore.ath.cx.
>                         MX      20 spore.ath.cx.
> 
> 
> $ORIGIN farrellhome.net.
> $TTL 609080     ; 1 week 1 hour 11 minutes 20 seconds
> _http._tcp     IN SRV  0 0 80  www
> www            IN A    66.191.143.114
> ===================================================================
> 
> As you can see for yourself, http://www.farrellhome.net works fine
> (you'll see an HTTP authentication dialogue) but http://farrellhome.net
> does not work at all (server not found)
> 

Why would you expect this to work? There are no browsers that use SRV 
records. It would make sense to do so but you need to get the browser 
developers to support it. Where is there any HTTP authentication or did 
you set restricts on the root directory?

> Does anybody here care to point me in the right direction?  If so, I
> thank you for your advice in this matter.
> 

Try this:

$TTL 7200       ; 2 hours
@  IN SOA  spore.ath.cx. root.spore.ath.cx. (
				202        ; serial
				7200       ;refresh (2 hours)
				1800       ;retry (30 minutes)
				604800     ; expire (1 week)
				7200       ; minimum (2 hours)
			)
                         NS      spore.ath.cx.
                         MX      20 spore.ath.cx.


$TTL 609080     ; 1 week 1 hour 11 minutes 20 seconds
                IN A    66.191.143.114
www            IN CNAME	@

Danny