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1 | DNS SRV record support in apt | |
2 | ============================= | |
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4 | Apt supports a subset of the DNS SRV server records protocol as | |
5 | described in RFC 2782 for service discovery. | |
6 | ||
7 | Before connecting to the requested server APT will send a SRV | |
8 | record request of the form "_$protocol._tcp._$host", e.g. | |
9 | "_http._tcp.ftp.debian.org" or "_http._tcp.security.debian.org". | |
10 | ||
11 | If the server sends SRV records | |
12 | as a reply APT will use those to connect to the server(s) in | |
13 | this reply. It will honor the "priority" field in the reply. | |
14 | ||
15 | However it does not implement the "weight" alogrithm as described | |
16 | in RFC 2782. It will use an equal weight for each server of the | |
17 | same priority. | |
18 | ||
19 | If connecting to a server fails APT will retry with the next one | |
20 | and remove the server from the list of valid servers for this | |
21 | session. | |
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