{"id":952,"date":"2019-05-28T11:32:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T09:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=952"},"modified":"2022-10-06T16:17:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:17:19","slug":"what-is-an-srv-record-how-do-i-create-it","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/kb\/what-is-an-srv-record-how-do-i-create-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an SRV-record? How do I create it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The SRV-record is a type of DNS record which defines the location of servers for specific services. It is required if you use services like SIP, XMPP, CalDAV, LDAP and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The SRV-record has the following format:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&#91;_service].&#91;_protocol].&#91;hostname]. &#91;TTL] &#91;class] SRV &#91;priority] &#91;weight] &#91;port] &#91;target]<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This is an example of an SRV-record:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>_caldav._tcp.ninefortwo.be. 3600 IN SRV 0 5 80 caldav.ninefortwo.be<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To find the SRV form in your <a href=\"https:\/\/my.combell.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">control panel<\/a>&nbsp;hosting control panel follow:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>At the top follow &#8216;My Products&#8217; &gt; &#8216;DNS &amp; forwarding management&#8217;.<\/li><li>In the table you will see your hosts. Click on &#8216;DNS &amp; forwarding&#8217; for the host you need to add SRV-record for.<\/li><li>In the vertical menu to your left, select the &#8216;SRV-records&#8217; option.<\/li><li>You have to enter the following details in the SRV-record form:<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Service: _caldav<\/li><li>Protocol: _tcp<\/li><li>Hostname: \/ (leave empty: because it isn&#8217;t a subdomain => it&#8217;s a root domain)<\/li><li>TTL: 3600<\/li><li>Priority: 0<\/li><li>Weight: 5<\/li><li>Port: 80<\/li><li>Target: caldav.ninefortwo.be<br><br><br><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22334\" style=\"width: 750px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-06-at-5.08.27-PM.png\" alt=\"\"><br><br><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22333\" style=\"width: 750px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-06-at-5.08.30-PM.png\" alt=\"\"><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SRV-record is a type of DNS record which defines the location of servers for specific services. It is required if you use services like SIP, XMPP, CalDAV, LDAP and others. The SRV-record has the following format: This is an example of an SRV-record: To find the SRV form in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[8,13],"ht-kb-tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/952\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=952"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}