On 7/5/2011 6:07 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
On 7/5/2011 3:12 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
" The SRV record allows
DNS resolvers to search for particular applications and underlying
transports (for example, HTTP running over TLS, see [RFC2818]) and to
learn the domain name and port where that service resides in a given
administrative domain. "
The transports should be TCP, UDP, or (arguably or not) other transport
protocols. TLS is not a transport.
Also, strictly speaking, the function that is performed is lookup or
mapping, not "search". The difference is large.
Agreed. For those who *really* want to do other stuff beyond lookup with
the DNS, I refer you to:
http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~michalis/TALKS/OOS-2001/touch-OOS.pdf.gz
Joe
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