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Understand SRV records

Understand SRV records

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Understand SRV records

- [Voiceover] SRV records have so much potential. They can be really, really cool but they're not used very often by people. I think that's because they are a little bit of an odd ball in the DNS world. They look different, they look kind of funny. You build them differently, right. So I want to try to dispel some of this mystique around SRV records and explain them a little bit to you and give you a resource that will help you to use them in your little universe, where ever you are doing DNS on your systems. So I've got one already written here and I wanted to give you this as an example. We're going to do at least one more and I'll show you how to build these things but your SRV record, obviously you're going to choose the type from the drop down list, or you're going to type this in depending upon the interface you're working with. The record type starts with an underscore and this is very unique in the DNS world. They did that on purpose. When developing the standard, the idea was…

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