SRV-record

Service-location record — specifies host AND port for a named service.

Wat is een SRV-record?

SRV (RFC 2782) lets clients discover where a named service lives without hard-coding a hostname or port. It encodes priority, weight, port, and target host. Used heavily by XMPP, Microsoft Active Directory, SIP, Matrix, Minecraft and many VoIP / federated services.

Voorbeeld zone-file-entry

_xmpp-client._tcp.example.com. 300 IN SRV 10 60 5222 xmpp1.example.com.

Gangbare use cases

▸XMPP / Jabber federation — _xmpp-client._tcp.
▸Active Directory service location — _ldap._tcp, _kerberos._tcp.
▸SIP / Matrix federation — _sip._tls, _matrix._tcp.
▸Minecraft non-standard server port — _minecraft._tcp.

Veelvoorkomende valkuilen

Many client libraries only honour SRV for specific protocols; HTTP/HTTPS infamously do NOT use SRV (despite RFC drafts). For HTTP, use CNAME / A.

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Verwante recordtypen

CNAME record

Aliases one hostname to another — the resolver follows it transparently.

A record

Maps a domain name to an IPv4 address.

TXT record

Stores arbitrary text — most often SPF, DKIM, DMARC and ownership-verification tokens.