[ILUG] Class C Addresses

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Scott Wunsch wrote:

> Actually, that's been superceded by RFC 2782.
> 
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2782.html

aha... that explains the underscores then.

> > eg "_http". arg....)
> 
> Take a look at the new RFC I mentioned.  It does, unfortunately, specify
> that the underscore is now required.

which i dont quite understand, as "_" is not an allowed char in DNS 
names. (unless that's changed too).

> Sadly, not many clients do support it.
> 
> http://dns.vanrein.org/srv/tools/
> 
> There is talk about adding it to Mozilla, but it seems to be primarily talk
> at the moment.  Dealing with the failover issues when you're talking about
> an ephemeral protocol like HTTP isn't as easy as it sounds.

true.

> But it really would be nice if this would happen.  With SRV records, I'd
> finally accept the idea of <http://wunsch.org/> being a reasonable sort of
> URL.

--paulj