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DNS SRV Records

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Fri May 15 18:40:58 BST 2020

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Hello!

DNS SRV records are pretty interesting, but in my opinion this wouldunnecessarily complicate the spec. Like HTTP, if you want to connectto a non-default port you can just specify it in the URL. If you wantto run the gemini server on a different machine, there's lots of waysto redirect that, but the simplest would be having a `gem.domain.tld`subdomain for your domain name.

makeworld

> Hi all,
> I was wondering if there are currently any Gemini clients that check SRV
> records instead of connecting to the default port.
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> Or if there are any plans to include this in the spec.
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> I think it is a good way to add Gemini support to domains without
> requiring the Gemini server to be installed on the same machine as other
> service. I think XMPP for example has benefited a lot from this.
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> Leo