RFC 6763: DNS-Based Service Discovery
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
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.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC6763
- Published
- February 2013
- Authors
- S. Cheshire; M. Krochmal
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 49
- Also known as
- —
- Updated by:
- RFC 8553
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