Hi Tale, Happy new year! Your understanding is correct, i just thought that SRV can detect whose server is alive so it can choose and provide an answer with the available Server.
Thank you! On Tue, 5 Jan 2021, 23:53 tale <d.lawre...@salesforce.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 4:30 AM Wilfred Sarmiento via bind-users > <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote: > > Is DNS Bind SRV record can detect the Server's availability? If yes, how? > > Could you provide more information about your goal? I don't fully > understand the question. > > For my reading, the answer is basically no, in that an SRV record just > provides data about where.a particular service can be found. It's up > to other systems to fetch that data and interpret it, including > whether that service is actually available at the given endpoint. In > its typical operation, BIND will just take whatever name and port the > zone administrator said to provide for that SRV record, and not do any > sort of availability checks on it. > > However, if you go deep into a far more complicated, custom use of > BIND, you could set up a process that monitors the availability and > changes the SRV record accordingly. > -- > tale > -- This e-mail message (including attachments, if any) is intended for the use of the individual or the entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, proprietary, confidential and exempt from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and delete this E-mail message immediately.
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