SRV record

Advertises the host and port for a specific service, letting clients discover where a protocol lives without hard-coded settings.

What one looks like

_sip._tcp.example.com. 3600 IN SRV 10 60 5060 sipserver.example.com.

Things worth knowing

  • Used by SIP, XMPP, Minecraft servers and Microsoft 365 autodiscover.
  • The fields are priority, weight, port and target — in that order.
  • The name must include the service and protocol prefixes with underscores.

Look up a real SRV record

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