Bug 24551

Summary: [mad idea] Provide a SRV-resolution test hostname
Product: Telepathy Reporter: Simon McVittie <smcv>
Component: generalAssignee: Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Simon McVittie 2009-10-15 05:55:35 UTC 
As a service to the Internet in general, and Telepathy users in particular, we could try to arrange with the fd.o admins to have the following:

srvtest.telepathy.freedesktop.org (an A record)
_xmpp-client._tcp.srvtest.freedesktop.org (an SRV record)

They don't need to point to anything in particular (we could have them both resolve to 127.0.0.1 or something), as long as they are resolvable.

Given that, we could have an easy diagnostic in connection managers and/or UIs for "SRV records are broken on your network, please fix it or specify the server name manually", shown when:

* a connection cannot connect, and
* srvtest.telepathy.freedesktop.org A resolves successfully, and
* _xmpp-client._tcp.srvtest.telepathy.freedesktop.org SRV does not resolve

For instance, dnsmasq >= 1.5 has a misleadingly-named option ("filterwin2k") that deliberately breaks SRV to avoid dial-on-demand, and in versions < 2.12 it's even on by default. Unfortunately, several embedded Linux distributions for routers use dnsmasq versions between 1.5 and 2.12...
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