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It's a shame that SRV records were not included in DNS from beginning, the landscape could look really different today. Notably it would have also liberated por
by zokier 3y ago
It's a shame that SRV records were not included in DNS from beginning, the landscape could look really different today. Notably it would have also liberated port numbers from their semi-fixed status; you could run any service on any port completely transparently, no need to worry about port collisions and whatnot.
Note that Vixie is co-author of SRV RFC
- marcus0x62 3y agoIt's even weirder and more frustrating when you look at RR types like WKS and HINFO that were included in the original spec. Rather than be able to say "I run this service/variant on this port", they included a way to specify which well-known services were running (at the DNS configuration level,) but on the wire it is just a bitmap of putatively open ports.