[dnsext] SRV and wildcard CNAME

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Fri, 18 February 2011 05:51 UTC

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Subject: [dnsext] SRV and wildcard CNAME
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Mark Andrews wrote:

> this include "www.example.net CNAME example.net".

That's a problem. But...

> Additionally people are too lazy to add records for each virtual
> service in the DNS so they use "* CNAME server" which makes using
> SRV hard as it requires prepended labels.

Doesn't it mean:

	*.example.com    CNAME srv.example.com
	srv.example.com  SRV   Priority Weight Port Target

works as:

	_http._tcp.www.example.com SRV  Priority Weight Port Target

?
						Masataka Ohta