[Bug 24551] New: [mad idea] Provide a SRV-resolution test hostname

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24551

           Summary: [mad idea] Provide a SRV-resolution test hostname
           Product: Telepathy
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk


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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