Let's ask Microsoft to add the DNS SRV record in IE

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Daniel

Hi all.

Some of you have already noticed that the SRV record types are not
understood by Internet Explorer. This SRV record type allows us to set
a priority on web servers IP's, which makes a wonderful failover
system at no cost (web redundancy). This is a big problem, as it would
be very widely used if they would implement it. It's not far that they
will..

So I ask to the most of you if you could do a request to Microsoft to
add this feature in the next release of IE, if you wish. I think that
this would decide them to add it quickly.

To report this suggestion, go here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com
Then go to the bottom of the page and click 'contact us'.
Then choose the 'product suggestion', and choose Internet Explorer
with 'network connectivity'.
You do not need and account nor to give your e-mail address, just
write the suggestion !!

Thank you all, and I hope this might improve the DNS system...

Daniel
 
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Daniel said:
Hi all.

Some of you have already noticed that the SRV record types are not
understood by Internet Explorer. This SRV record type allows us to set
a priority on web servers IP's, which makes a wonderful failover
system at no cost (web redundancy). This is a big problem, as it would
be very widely used if they would implement it. It's not far that they
will..

So I ask to the most of you if you could do a request to Microsoft to
add this feature in the next release of IE, if you wish. I think that
this would decide them to add it quickly.

To report this suggestion, go here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com
Then go to the bottom of the page and click 'contact us'.
Then choose the 'product suggestion', and choose Internet Explorer
with 'network connectivity'.
You do not need and account nor to give your e-mail address, just
write the suggestion !!

Thank you all, and I hope this might improve the DNS system...

Daniel
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My guess is they are probably already working on it. After all, Microsoft is
one of the very few companies to use new industry implementations. After
all, AD was one of the first products to heavily use SRVs. Exchange 2000
Instant Messaging uses it too. My guess is that there's probably a good
reason why they haven't yet released it for IE.

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MF> My guess is they are probably already working on it. After all,
MF> Microsoft is one of the very few companies to use new industry
MF> implementations. After all, AD was one of the first products
MF> to heavily use SRVs. [...]

My guess is that Microsoft *isn't* working on it. It's not excessively
hard to perform a "SRV" lookup, and Microsoft patently already has code
to do such lookups. If Microsoft's Internet Explorer doesn't have "SRV"
support, it's because Microsoft hasn't done any work on it at all.

MF> My guess is that there's probably a good reason why they
MF> haven't yet released it for IE.

The only *good* reasons that I can think of have long since been
addressed. They were addressed by Thor Kottelin and Mark Andrews almost
four years ago.

<URL:http://www.anta.net./nic/draft-andrews-http-srv-01.shtml>
<URL:http://ftp.ist.utl.pt./pub/drafts/draft-andrews-http-srv-00.txt>

It's ironic that Microsoft Windows Server networking is an exemplar that
many point to when discussing the use of "SRV" resource records, and
that Microsoft's Windows 2000 Resource Kit even gives examples of
"_http._tcp" "SRV" resource records, and yet Microsoft's own Internet
Explorer is one of the biggest holdouts with respect to "SRV" lookups.
 
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