SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which permits you to employ a domain name for a certain service different from an Internet site. By creating a couple of SRV records, you’ll be able to use the domain name with different companies and forward it to numerous servers at once, every single server handling a different service. You'll be able to specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there will never be any interference. You may as well set individual priorities and weight for two records that are employed for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. Using an SRV record you can use your domain or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the actual software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours is going to use is determined by the priority and weight values that you have set.

SRV Records in Hosting

In case you have a hosting account with us and the DNS records for a domain included in it are managed by our system, you're going to be able to create any record that you need effortlessly, including an SRV one. This is done via the user-friendly Hepsia CP and once you sign in to your hosting account and check out the DNS Records section, you'll simply need to fill a couple of boxes with the needed data and your new SRV record will be active within several hours. You can enter the service, protocol and the port number that you would like to use along with the priority and the weight of the new record based on how you intend to set up your system or what the third-party provider requires. If needed, you can even change the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which reveals how long it is going to remain active after you modify or delete it. The default TTL value for most records is 3600 seconds and you’re able to leave it if you do not specifically need a different one.