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... growing number of centralized databases - typically Web or Usenet
News "wanderers", or attempting to infer the existence of network
services from whatever DNS information may be available. The former
approach is not practical in some cases, notably when the entity ...
... approach is not practical in some cases, notably when the entity
seeking service information is a program.
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Ideally, the DNS or some complementary directory service would
provide a means for programs to determine automatically the network
services which are offered at a particular Internet ...
... DNS or some complementary directory service would
provide a means for programs to determine automatically the network
services which are offered at a particular Internet domain, the
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... protocols which are used to deliver them, and other technical
information. Unfortunately, although much work has been done to
develop said directory service technologies and to define new types
of DNS resource record to provide this type of information, there is
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... to indicate the host or hosts which provide the service. This
document proposes a slight formalization of this well-known alias ...
... RFC-1035] lookup capability, which makes it possible to determine
the network services offered at a given domain name. In practice
this is not widely used, perhaps because of the absence of a suitable
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... DNS aliases for the most
popular network services that currently exist (see the "Special
Cases" section below). For protocols that are not explicitly listed
in this document, the protocol specification ...
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... (Ab)Use of the DNS as a directory service ...
... is sometimes possible to "guess" the domain names associated with an
organization's network services, though this is becoming more
difficult as the number of organizations registered in the DNS
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does not constitute a registration of a World-Wide Web service.
There is no requirement that the domain name ...
... aliases do provide useful "hints" about the
services offered. We propose that they be taken in this spirit.
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... information such as organization name, location, and business type.
It is hoped that one or more of these will eventually make it
possible to augment the basic lookup service which the DNS provides
with a more generalized search ...
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In the short term, whilst directory service technology and further
types of DNS resource record are being developed, domain name ...
... administrators are encouraged to use these common names for the
network services they run. They will make it easier for outsiders to
find information about your organization, and also make it easier for
you to move services ...
... network services they run. They will make it easier for outsiders to
find information about your organization, and also make it easier for
you to move services from one machine to another.
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... CCSO service name ...
... aliases may find
it desirable to use all three. This increases the likelihood of the
service being found.
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As noted earlier, implementations should be resilient in the event
that the name does not point to the expected service.
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... DNS lookup is indeed the
genuine information. Spoofing may take the form of denial of
service, such as directing of the client to a non-existent address,
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The service names listed in this document provide a sensible set of
defaults which may be used as an aid in determining the hosts which
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... defaults which may be used as an aid in determining the hosts which
offer particular services for a given domain name.
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... A. Emtage, P. Deutsch. "archie - An Electronic Directory Service for the Internet", Winter Usenix Conference Proceedings 1992. Pages 93-110. ...
... Gulbrandsen, A., and P. Vixie, "A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)", RFC 2052(-> 2782prop), October 1996. ...