[lapm] RE: [LA.pm] The odds of finger games

[Ask Bjoern Hansen]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Eric Hammond wrote:

> Erick Calder wrote:
> > if I'm making an http request from a domain, do I really care
> > which host is serving it?
>
> I always thought that HTTP host DNS resolution should have been
> handled in a manner similar to SMTP, with the option of using MX
> records to indicate which specific host(s) handle HTTP traffic for
> that domain.

SRV records to the rescue!  (Except nothing is using it).  Jabber is
supposed to use it, but I don't think it has been documented well
and it's certainly not implemented.

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