On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 22:02:35 +1000
"deon" <deon@VERT/ALTERANT> wrote:
> Re: syncterm bbs port discovery
> By: fusion to Digital Man on Thu Jul 07 2022 05:55 am
>
> > Keep having this idea pop in my head.. maybe a solution in search
> > of a problem.. DNS servers often have text strings with all sorts
> > of stuff.. spf for ips allowed to send mail on behalf of a domain,
> > domain ownership verfification.. yadda yadda
> >
> > Could perhaps throw one in there like BBS=2323 or something so
> > syncterm can find nonstandard ports on it's own.
>
> So "SRV" records a really for this:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
>
Keep in mind an SRV record hostname must point to a servers A or AAAA
address and not a CNAME. Otherwise, seems reasonable.
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