[JDEV] Service name in SRV records

Ralph Siemsen ralphs at blueairnetworks.com
Thu Oct 3 09:39:54 CDT 2002


Richard Dobson wrote:
> 
> I think its best to leave _jabber._tcp as it is and not add
> _jabber-server._tcp because that unneccessaryly complicates things (you
> shouldnt change what is already the standard because it complicates things
> for all the existing implementations, and all the thousands of installed
> servers), but to add the _jabber-client._tcp one in.

If my understanding is correct, the IEFT or IANA has specified 
_jabber-sever, so I suspect that we'll have to support that sooner or 
later.  It adds a bit of complexity, but not too bad:
	1) try qtype=SRV for _jabber-server._tcp.domain.com
	2) try qtype=SRV for _jabber._tcp.domain.com
	3) try qtype=A for domain.com
I can live with that...

> My client already supports SRV lookups.

Great!  Which one is that BTW, I'm curious particularly if you support 
windows, since so far we have found support for SRV lookups to be 
problematic for older versions (98, NT4).
-R





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