SRV Records

What are SRV records? What exactly is their function in the Domain Name System?

SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to use a domain for a specific service different from a site. By creating a few SRV records, you can use the domain address with different companies and direct it to several servers at the same time, each server managing a separate service. You are able to specify the port number for the connection to each machine, so there will not be any interference. You could also set individual priorities and weight for 2 records that are employed for the exact same service, but direct to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. By having an SRV record you can use your domain name or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for instance, and have the real software running on several machines with different companies. Which one a customer of yours is going to use depends on the priority and weight values that you have set.

: SRV Records in Website Hosting

You'll be able to set up a brand new SRV record for any of the domain names that you host in a shared website hosting account on our innovative cloud platform. Given that the DNS records for the domain name are handled on our end, you’ll be able to manage them effortlessly via the respective section of your Hepsia CP and minutes later any new record you set up is going to be active. Hepsia comes with a really intuitive interface and all it requires to create an SRV record is to fill in a couple of text boxes - the service the record is going to be used for, the Internet protocol and also the port number. The priority (1-100), weight (1-100) and TTL boxes have standard values, which you can leave unless the other provider requires different ones. TTL stands short for Time To Live and this number reveals the time in seconds for the record to be active when you edit it or erase it at some point, the default one being 3600.