DNS-Based Service Discovery
RFC 6763, “DNS-Based Service Discovery”, is a Proposed Standard document published in February 2013 by S. Cheshire, M. Krochmal. It has since been updated by RFC 8553. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document specifies how DNS resource records are named and structured to facilitate service discovery. Given a type of service that a client is looking for, and a domain in which the client is looking for that service, this mechanism allows clients to discover a list of named instances of that desired service, using standard DNS queries. This mechanism is referred to as DNS-based Service Discovery, or DNS-SD.
What “Proposed Standard” means
An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.
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- RFC 6761 Special-Use Domain Names
- RFC 6765 xDSL Multi-Pair Bonding MIB
- RFC 6760 Requirements for a Protocol to Replace the AppleTalk Name Binding Protocol
- RFC 6766 xDSL Multi-Pair Bonding Using Time-Division Inverse Multiplexing MIB
- RFC 6767 Ethernet-Based xDSL Multi-Pair Bonding MIB
- RFC 6768 ATM-Based xDSL Bonded Interfaces MIB