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> De-facto standard discovery mechanism DNS does not work with ports

Yes, it does, see SRV records.



I meant DNS A/AAAA queries with preconfigured/well-known ports being the default. While some applications/protocols/services do use some port discovery mechanism, I would argue it is nowhere close to being de-facto standard.


So true, but how many developers know about them? The API situation does not help either.




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