Re: [hybi] Alternative for SRV proposal

[Iñaki Baz Castillo <[e-mail]>]

2011/7/24 Willy Tarreau <[e-mail]>:
> We could even refine the process : you could make it mandatory that for an
> SRV record to be presented, the main host would necessarily have a CNAME
> record. The idea is that most of the time, CNAME records will point to the
> same entries as SRV records. Thus you can avoid the slowdown for most
> situations that way :
>
>   1) resolve www.mydomain.org
>   2) if it has at least a CNAME and if SRV is enabled, then retry with SRV
>   3) if not, or if SRV fails, use AAAA/A as returned
>
> That way you can make use of SRV by default without impacting too
> many sites (only those with a CNAME).

But that would require two DNS queries (in case of CNAME), am I wrong?
and that seems to be a problem (due to explanations given in the other
thread).

Why not just making SRV optional but ensuring that the domain in the
URI also has a A/AAAA resolution? This is:

ws://mydomain.org

1) ~# host -t A mydomain.org
    1.2.3.4

2) ~# host -t srv _ws._tcp.mydomain.org
    1 50 server01.mydomain.org
    1 50 server02.mydomain.org
    2  0 server-backup.mydomain.org

2a) ~# host -t A server01.mydomain.org
       1.2.3.4

2b) ~# host -t A server02.mydomain.org
       1.2.3.5

2b) ~# host -t A server-backup.mydomain.org
       9.9.9.9


Clients with no SRV support (or disabled as mobile browsers) should
just perform step 1 while other WS clients would/could try step 2 (and
2a, 2b, 2c...).


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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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