Re: syncterm bbs port discovery
By: deon to fusion on Thu Jul 07 2022 10:02 pm

Hey Apam,

Keep having this idea pop in my head.. maybe a solution in search of a problem.. DNS servers often have text strings with all
sorts of stuff.. spf for ips allowed to send mail on behalf of a domain, domain ownership verfification.. yadda yadda

Could perhaps throw one in there like BBS=2323 or something so syncterm can find nonstandard ports on it's own.

So "SRV" records a really for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record

But your idea is good - could Syncterm read them? Best to find deuce in IRC or post a feature request on sourceforge

This would be a nice idea for MagiTerm too...


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On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 22:02:35 +1000
"deon" <deon@VERT/ALTERANT> wrote:

Re: syncterm bbs port discovery
By: fusion to Digital Man on Thu Jul 07 2022 05:55 am

Keep having this idea pop in my head.. maybe a solution in search
of a problem.. DNS servers often have text strings with all sorts
of stuff.. spf for ips allowed to send mail on behalf of a domain,
domain ownership verfification.. yadda yadda

Could perhaps throw one in there like BBS=2323 or something so
syncterm can find nonstandard ports on it's own.

So "SRV" records a really for this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record

Keep in mind an SRV record hostname must point to a servers A or AAAA
address and not a CNAME. Otherwise, seems reasonable.
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