SRV records etc

[Kevin Oberman]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Mike Hoskins (michoski) <michoski at cisco.com
> wrote:

> -----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.  :-)
>

SRV records are almost essential for some applications. I can't imagine not
supporting them.

HINFO is getting pretty rare. The security issues are pretty obvious and
its advantages are rather limited.
--
Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
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