Patrik Fältström wrote:
URI RR can not be used by applications without URL specifications,
whereas SRV can be used by any applications using hostnames (and
having IANA registered (or, well known?) service name).
If you as an application query for a specific service, you should be prepared
> to receive all URI schemes that can be used for that service.
What if there is no URL scheme that can be used for that service?
As Jared Mauch wrote:
>> And it can be automated if browsers support SRV, a DNS RR type to
>> specify non-default port numbers.
>
> I'm not talking about a browser.
don't assume all the applications are living in HTTP world and have
URLs to describe the applications.
I.e. if you query for _http._tcp.example.com. it would be confusing
> and weird if you get a SIP-URI scheme back.
Suppose that there is no http scheme defined, in which case, no
URL could be returned from the beginning.
For example, what URL could be placed at "_domain._tcp.example.com"?
Masataka Ohta