bucy wrote:
] ] The SRV RR allows administrators to use several servers
] ] for a single domain, to move services from host to host
] ] with little fuss, and to designate some hosts as primary
] ] servers for a service and others as backups.
]
] SRV records might, for example, make sitefinder much less bad;
] if the wildcard were
]
] *.com IN SRV host=sitefinder.verisign.com port=80 priority=1
] weight=1
]
] rather than
]
] *.com IN A ...
]
] I expect that the effects would be much less disruptive, i.e.
] browsers would be redirected but everything else would not.

This is a very interesting approach to the sitefinder problem. John, if you make it to Phreaknic I'm willing to give you some of my speaking time to talk about this.

U: I guess one concern is this still creates problems for HTTP based XMLRPC services, which will get a "no XML service on this webserver" error instead of a "host not found" error. (Of course, one could ask that xmlrpc lookup _xmlrpc._tcp.*...

RE: A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV) (RFC2782)