DNS SRV Records

[colecmac at protonmail.com]

Hello!

DNS SRV records are pretty interesting, but in my opinion this would
unnecessarily complicate the spec. Like HTTP, if you want to connect
to a non-default port you can just specify it in the URL. If you want
to run the gemini server on a different machine, there's lots of ways
to 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.
>
> Or if there are any plans to include this in the spec.
>
> 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