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diff --git a/README.SrvRecords b/README.SrvRecords deleted file mode 100644 index a3da64519..000000000 --- a/README.SrvRecords +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -DNS SRV record support in apt -============================= - -Apt supports a subset of the DNS SRV server records protocol as -described in RFC 2782 for service discovery. - -Before connecting to the requested server APT will send a SRV -record request of the form "_$protocol._tcp._$host", e.g. -"_http._tcp.ftp.debian.org" or "_http._tcp.security.debian.org". - -If the server sends SRV records -as a reply APT will use those to connect to the server(s) in -this reply. It will honor the "priority" field in the reply. - -However it does not implement the "weight" algorithm as described -in RFC 2782. It will use an equal weight for each server of the -same priority. - -If connecting to a server fails APT will retry with the next one -and remove the server from the list of valid servers for this -session. - |