SRV records etc

[Mike Hoskins (michoski)]

-----Original Message-----
From: John <john at klam.ca>
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 7:29 PM
To: "bind-users at lists.isc.org" <bind-users at lists.isc.org>
Subject: SRV records etc

>How useful are SRV records? Are they worth installing? What are their
>benefits, and pitfalls?
>Similar question about HINFO.

In my limited experience, this is a question about requirements...  In the
past I had to support applications which made extensive use of SRV for
service discovery.  It was a requirement, it worked well in testing, so we
considered it useful and happily supported it.  :-)