HTTP SRV Records

[Dan Farrell]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:59:46 -0500
Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 

Thank you, it now works as expected.  Thanks again,
						Dan Farrell