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===More about SRV Records===
===More about SRV Records===
An example of using srv records would be as follows: Say you have two VoIP servers and they have the public IPs of <code>192.0.2.50</code> and <code>192.0.2.60</code> and you want to give it the DNS name of <code inline>a-pbx.example.com</code> and <code>b-pbx.example.com</code>. You'd create the following DNS records for it as follows:
An example of using srv records would be as follows: Say you have two VoIP servers and they have the public IPs of <code>192.0.2.50</code> and <code>192.0.2.60</code> and you want to give it the DNS name of <code inline>a-pbx.example.com</code> and <code>b-pbx.example.com</code>, and then use <code>pbx.example.com</code> as the SRV record, you'd create the following DNS records for it as follows:


a-pbx.example.com. A 192.0.2.50
a-pbx.example.com. A 192.0.2.50
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The format of the 'host' part of a SRV record is: <code> _service._protocol.name</code>. The format of the 'value' of an srv record would be in the format of: <code>priority weight port host</code>
The format of the 'host' part of a SRV record is: <code> _service._protocol.name</code>. The format of the 'value' of an srv record would be in the format of: <code>priority weight port host</code>

You can test your SRV record using 'dig' on the command line, eg:
$ dig +short srv _sip._udp.pbx.example.com
1 0 5060 a-pbx.example.com.
2 0 5060 b-pbx.example.com.


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