Comment on Need help with port forwarding and Cloudflare DNS records

• SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you really want to get anal about it, yes I know there things like CNAME, PTR and MX records too but that’s outside of the scope of this discussion.

  DNS doesn’t deal with ports, there’s no way to say: homelab.example.com should point to IP address 1.2.3.4 and port 12400.

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  • equinox@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    DNS can deal with ports.

    You can use a SRV record to specify the port for applications (not browsers) that support it.

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    • brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For the discussions regarding OPs web server they want externally accessible, no DNS does not do ports.

      For other applications there are SRV records, but that’s beyond the scope of the original question. It sounds like u/spacecadet didn’t want to confuse OP, and while SRV can assist certain applications with ports, pointing it out here isnt helpful.

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      • equinox@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sure, it’s not helpful, but just because something is out of scope for the original question doesn’t mean you can reiterate objectively false statements.

        They probably should have worded it like you did in your first sentence.

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