{"id":4178,"date":"2023-11-02T14:47:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/?post_type=docs&p=4178"},"modified":"2025-01-09T20:39:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:39:54","password":"","slug":"what-is-a-dns-srv-record","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/support\/wat-is-een-dns-srv-record\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a DNS SRV record?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An SRV record, which stands for \"Service Record,\" is a specific type of DNS record used to provide information about the location of a specific service within a domain. These records are often used in situations where multiple services are available on different servers within the same domain, and they help route requests to the correct server for a particular service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An SRV record contains the following information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Service: This indicates which service is offered, such as \"ldap\" for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, \"http\" for HTTP websites, \"smtp\" for e-mail and many others.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Protocol: Specifies the protocol used for the service, such as \"tcp\" or \"udp.\"<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Priority: This indicates which server has priority when multiple servers are available for the same service. Lower numbers have higher priority.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Weight: If there are multiple servers with the same priority, the weight is used to distribute the load. Servers with a higher weight receive a larger share of requests.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Port: This is the port on which the service is available. Each protocol usually has a default port number (e.g., 80 for HTTP, 25 for SMTP).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Target domain name: This is the domain name of the server on which the service is available.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    With this information, clients (such as Web browsers or e-mail clients) can find the correct server and connect to the desired service within a domain.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Een SRV-record, wat staat voor “Service Record” (Service- of dienstrecord), is een specifiek type DNS-record dat wordt gebruikt om informatie te verstrekken over de locatie van een specifieke service binnen een domein. Deze records worden vaak gebruikt in situaties waarin meerdere services beschikbaar zijn op verschillende servers binnen hetzelfde domein, en ze helpen bij het […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[10],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[76],"class_list":["post-4178","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-domeinnamen","knowledge_base-domeinnamen"],"acf":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":223,"total_views":"4164","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admindigihosting","author_nicename":"admindigihosting","author_url":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/author\/admindigihosting\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Domeinnamen","term_url":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/support\/domeinnamen\/domeinnamen\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[{"term_name":"Domeinnamen","term_url":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/support\/domeinnamen\/","term_slug":"domeinnamen"}],"knowledge_base_slug":["domeinnamen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4179,"href":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4178\/revisions\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi.hosting\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}