Re: [Operators] about srv record

2011-08-15 Thread Dave Cridland
On Sun Aug 14 15:48:17 2011, Eric Schnoebelen wrote: Why not just have xmpp.bob.com point at multiple A records, for multiple servers? After all, a single name in DNS can return more than one A record. Well, yes, but that's not actually quite the same statement. SRV records request the clie

Re: [Operators] about srv record

2011-08-15 Thread Dave Cridland
On Sat Aug 13 23:34:56 2011, Josemar Müller Lohn wrote: You can only get a CNAME answer when you ask for an A record. I don't think that's true. I think it may well choke the resolvers in many XMPP implementations, mind, but I think it ought to work according to the specifications. A CNAME