Subj : Re: syncterm bbs port discovery
To   : All
From : Nelgin
Date : Fri Jul 08 2022 00:29:20

On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 22:02:35 +1000
"deon" <deon@VERT/ALTERANT> wrote:

>   Re: syncterm bbs port discovery
>   By: fusion to Digital Man on Thu Jul 07 2022 05:55 am
> 
>  > Keep having this idea pop in my head.. maybe a solution in search
>  > of a problem.. DNS servers often have text strings with all sorts
>  > of stuff.. spf for ips allowed to send mail on behalf of a domain,
>  > domain ownership verfification.. yadda yadda
>  >
>  > Could perhaps throw one in there like BBS=2323 or something so
>  > syncterm can find nonstandard ports on it's own.  
> 
> So "SRV" records a really for this:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
>
Keep in mind an SRV record hostname must point to a servers A or AAAA
address and not a CNAME. Otherwise, seems reasonable.
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