On Feb 5, 2010, at 5:13 PM, John Levine wrote:
The design right choice, here is a TXT record, under an underscore subdomain.
What's wrong with a SRV record? Then we can skip the moaning and groaning
from the DNS crowd about another overloaded TXT record.
+1. A TXT record is seldom the right design choice, despite the trail of badly
designed protocols that attempted to argue otherwise.
However...
The right hand side of a SRV record is a hostname, not an email address.
(Trivially worked around in at least two obvious ways).
Also, support for looking up SRV records is even rarer than TXT or MX.
Cheers,
Steve
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