Description
DNS SRV record targetHierarchy
GBoxed
+----GSrvTarget
Detailed Description
SRV (service) records are used by some network protocols to provide
service-specific aliasing and load-balancing. For example, XMPP
(Jabber) uses SRV records to locate the XMPP server for a domain;
rather than connecting directly to "example.com" or assuming a
specific server hostname like "xmpp.example.com", an XMPP client
would look up the "xmpp-client" SRV record for "example.com", and
then connect to whatever host was pointed to by that record. You can use gResolverLookupService
or
gResolverLookupServiceAsync
to find the GSrvTarget
s
for a given service. However, if you are simply planning to connect
to the remote service, you can use GNetworkService
's
GSocketConnectable
interface and not need to worry about
GSrvTarget
at all.