SRV, which is an abbreviation for Service, is a DNS record, which allows you to employ a domain for a specific service different from an Internet site. By setting up a few SRV records, you’re able to use the domain address with different companies and forward it to numerous servers simultaneously, each server managing a different service. You can specify the port number for the connection to every single machine, so there won't be any interference. You may as well set different priorities and weight for 2 records that are employed for the very same service, but point to different servers for redundancy or load balancing. With an SRV record you can employ your domain address or a subdomain under it for a Voice-Over-IP server, for example, and have the real software running on a number of machines with different providers. Which one a client of yours will use depends on the priority and weight values that you've set.

SRV Records in Website Hosting

Provided you have a website hosting account with our company and the DNS records for a domain name included in it are managed by our system, you will be able to create any record that you need with ease, including an SRV one. This is done through the user-friendly Hepsia CP and when you sign in to your hosting account and check out the DNS Records section, you'll only need to fill several boxes with the needed information and your new SRV record is going to be active in a few hours. You can type in the service, protocol and the port number that you would like to use as well as 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 wants. When required, you can even edit the TTL (Time To Live) value for the record, which reveals how long it's going to remain active after you modify or erase it. The standard TTL value for the majority of records is 3600 seconds and you are able to leave it if you do not specifically need a different one.